Re: RGSG - contents of Program menu

[Ric Klaren <ia_ric cs utwente nl>]

On Mon, Aug 03, 1998 at 10:19:21PM -0700, Lars Torben Wilson wrote:
> Wesley Felter writes:
>  > > So what goes into Program?
<snip>
>  > > What can we say DEFINITIVELY goes into Program?
> 

One observation. We should look big at necessity. It can be real cool to
put lots of stuff 'we' as coders/graphics-lovers/etc like into a menu but
please think of the average user. Think of the function of the application.
It's interface should fit to the application/task.

> Welsey's already got Preferences, and Print can't go there for the reasons 
> above. 

> Screenplay stuff:

Is this really necessary? Is it functional.

> Screengrabbing

There are seperate programs which do this stuf? Why incorporate it? Unless
it's of course a program where the screenshots are relevant. As I posted a
few minutes back (and some others made similar remarks too) is it maybe a
good idea to make the program menu a more 'gnomish' menu.

> About/Help, maybe
>   Users from other OSes will be pretty likely to want that to be a 
>   top level menu to start with, but if tmfkap does turn out
>   to be a macro-generated menu, the consistency would deal with that.

Is a good one for the Gnome/tmfkap/prog menu. Although the separate Help
menu got some good points going for it too.

> Exit, certainly. 
>   Note that I differentiate here between 'Exit app' and 'Close
>   window'; (re: the IE stuff in another thread). This should close
>   all windows belonging to this instance of the application, prompting 
>   to save files beforehand. Any sort of other 'Save all files' stuff
>   should go under File (or whatever its name happens to be). Multiple
>   running instances should _not_ respond.

Agreed.

>  > This is shaping up really well: The Program/foot menu is for app-wide
>  > commands, the File menu is for document-wide commands, the Edit menu
>  > is for commands that operate on the selection.
> 
> I pretty much agree. I'd just like to state, for the record, that
> anything I say wrt this whole thing is strictly IMHO and bears
> testing, rehashing, and general bashing about. :)

Agreed.

Ric
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