Re: Revisiting App Menu

[Carl Thompson <carlt elinux net>]

On 8 Jul 1998, Russell Nelson wrote:

> Carl Thompson writes:
>  > On 8 Jul 1998, Preben Randhol wrote:
>  > >  ---------------------
>  > >  | Gnome  File  Help |
>  > >  -|-----|-------------
>  > >   |     --------
>  > >   |Preferences |
>  > >   |About       | 
>  > >   |Exit        |
>  > >   |------------|
>  > 
>  > 1. New converts aren't going to know to look under the Gnome menu to exit
>  >    the program.  I think the extra menu will throw some people off.
> 
> <shrug>.  For the past fifteen years, every menuing system has had the 
> "exit" or "quit" command at the bottom of the leftmost menu.  It's not 
> like it's a new concept.

For the past fifteen years, if there was a "file" menu, it was the leftmost
menu...

Later,
Carl Thompson