org sheet

[Tom Vogt <tom lemuria org>]

in this mail I'll try to sum up the current status of the most important
ongoing discussions, to allow us to start anew from a clear and common
point.
I believe this is necessary if we want to reach any conclusions fast.


1) foot menu
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to reach some common terminology, I will join sun and others and call this
menu "tmfkap" from now on.

we have a proposal that details the following:

a) there will be a button with a foot icon as the leftmost entry of the
   menubar that opens a menu

b) this menu  (can we call it "Program-menu" because that's where the whole
   idea originated?) will contain at least the following items:

        Preferences...
        Exit

   where "Preferences..." only means app-wide settings.
   several other items for this menu are being discussed.




2) rename file menu
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we have a proposal that asks for the following:

a) rename the current "File" menu to a more app-specific term without
   changing its contents.




3) screenplays and other gadgets
--------------------------------
we have a collection of proposals to integrate screenplays, screencaptures,
SIGKILL emitters and other stuff somewhere in the menus. even though I
believe these things belong into the realm of windowmanager or external
apps, the proposals are there.



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