Re: PROPOSAL: UISG Menu Line Standardization

[Evan Lawrence <evan unix worldpath net>]

On Thu, 6 Aug 1998, Bowie Poag wrote:

> 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.

What if their is no online help available? Would the Help menu still
exist, with About as the only menu option? Seems a little odd to have an
entire toplevel menu that only contains the one menu item, especially
one that would make just as much sense to be placed under Program... 

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

Why the distinction between options and preferences - what's the diff?