Re: Main Menu

[Alexander Kirillov <kirillov math sunysb edu>]

On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 10:33:13AM -0600, Dan Mueth wrote:
> If you right click on the foot icon, you get a menu properties dialog
> which says the menu has a "menu type" of "main menu". (It is also called
> the "Main menu" if you right click on the Panel and go to Panel->add to
> panel->menu.)  If you right click on the Panel and go to Global
> Preferences and select the Menu tab, it calls it the "Panel menu".
> 
> So it seems this nomenclature has already been decided for us to some
> extent. (I didn't completely understand this when I sent the first email.)
> 
> Perhaps things can be clarified by using "Panel submenu" (as Judith Samson
> just suggested as I'm writing this). Then we would have a "Main Menu" and
> a "Panel Menu", each containing a "Panel submenu". 
> 
> Dan


Well, it may be already decided, but I am very unhappy about this
decision. Having "panel menu" and a completely different "panel
submenu" is a sure way of confusing the user. We need to think of a
better way, and then force boc to change the labels in the "Global
Prefs" capplet. 

Sasha