Re: The Help Menu

["Dan Kaminsky" <effugas best com>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Bowie Poag <bjp@primenet.com>
To: Tom Vogt <tom@lemuria.org>
Cc: gnome-gui-list@gnome.org <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Date: Saturday, August 01, 1998 10:14 AM
Subject: Re: The Help Menu


>
>
>On Sat, 1 Aug 1998, Tom Vogt wrote:
>
>> > Well, but i think, the 'Help' is the better place, because the
>> > 'Program/File' menu will normally hold more entries than 'Help' and as
>> > is stated above, its not totally misleading.
>>
>> I have opted for the name "Prog" in the current version of MY styleguide
>
>Bad idea, Tom.
>
>Here's why: It opens the door to a nasty little thing called visual
>inconsistancy. If youre going to shorten "Program" to "Prog", are you
>going to shorten "Options" to "Opns" ? Both are seven characters long.. If
>you truncate one, you have to truncate the other to remain consistant with
>the first. Or, just leave well enough alone.


I agree.  An abbreviation here is pretty damn bad--prog?  What the heck is a
prog?:-)  This stuff about visual consistency, fine, yeah, true, but, uhm,
what the heck is a prog?

I haven't yet heard a *really* good reason to trash File.