Re: One more hit against program

[John R Sheets <dusk smsi-roman com>]

Dan Kaminsky wrote:

> Wait lemme get this straight...
>
> There might not be room for EDIT
>
> But there WILL be room for PROGRAM?

Every application is a program and thus has program-like
functionality.  The program menu provides access to this.  An
application will always be a program, so the items in the program menu
will always be in context.  You must always be able to close the
application, and get help/about, and whatever else goes in the
Program/foot menu.

OTOH, not every application needs to show Edit functionality at all
times.  I thought Gleef made a crystal-clear case supporting this.  The
Edit menu _can_ exist.  But the style guide should not state that an
Edit menu must under all circumstances be present.

Is this really that hard to understand?

John