RE: PROPOSAL: UISG Menu Line Standardization

["Wesley Felter" <wesf cs utexas edu>]

> The UISG currently proposes that the FULLY LOADED Menu Line appears as:
> 
>    Program | File | Edit | View | Options | Preferences | Help
> 
>  o Program, and Help are manditory items. (!)'marked.

Agree, as long as Program is always represented as an icon. (To preserve the user's view that File is the leftmost text menu.)

>  o File, Edit, and View are optional items. Some programs will
>    never need to load/save files, for example. Some programs
>    will never need to edit anything. Some programs will never need
>    to alter the user's view. (?)'marked.

Agree.
   
>  o View, Options, and Preferences are contingent items, present
>    only when required by the app. They are not manditory.

I disagree that Preferences should be a top-level menu, agree on the rest.

Applications should be allowed to add their own menus where appropriate.

Wesley Felter - wesf@cs.utexas.edu - Hack the Planet