Re: Menu Premise (was Re: tmfkap, File, &c)

[Michael Poole <poole graviton res cmu edu>]

Scott Goehring <scott@poverty.bloomington.in.us> writes:

> John> Do we dare consider a configureable option to switch between the
> John> two?  Click a checkbox and you're in Task Menu mode...click it
> John> again and you're in Scope-menu mode.  Make it a GNOME-wide
> John> default, overridable on the application level.
> 
> This is an interesting idea, but it would double the work for
> programmers (we'd have to assign each menu item to two different menu
> placements, instead of just one).  Don't count on compliance. :)

    I really doubt it would be twice the work; from my (rather simple)
UI-heavy programs, writing another menu layout would only increase code
size by about 20%, and probably make sure that I wasn't duplicating
code more than I should be :)

    Most of the code really will be in UI-independent regions, so while
having an (optional) second menu layout would be more work, it's not an
unreasonable amount of work.

-- Michael