Re: Menu Bar Style Guide

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

On Mon, 6 Jul 1998, Miguel de Icaza wrote:

> >  > 2) Help menu should not be right aligned. Currently this is very
> >  > iconsistent between current apps. Most use left aligned, but several do
> >  > not.
> > 
> > Yeah, I agree there.  I continually forget about the Help menu.
> 
> Wait Wait Wait.
> 
> The Help menu goes on the right.  That is how we have been doing it
> for ages, and if an application is not doing that, it is broken and
> should be fixed.

	Heh.  I hate to disagree, but the Interface Hall of Shame makes a
very good case AGAINST a right aligned help menu.  The prime reason is
that newbies often miss the menu...  
						-Ben

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