Re: Style Guide suggestion

[Maciej Stachowiak <mstachow mit edu>]

aled.davies@bigfoot.com writes:
> Gleef wrote:
> > 
> > On Sun, 28 Jun 1998, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:
> > >
> > 
> > The trouble is there are only two menus required, File and Help.  Help is
> > a worse place for it.  While I agree that File isn't great, I would rather
> > see it stay in one place only, and not add a new required menu for it.
> > 
> > Therefore I would vote that Preferences... be required to be under File.
> > It's not pretty, but it would be consistant.  And besides, Preferences are
> > stored in a File, so it isn't a non-sensical location.
> > 
> 
> A better idea would allow a global setting which can be overridden on
> individual applications. 
> 
> What we probably need is some kind of control panel applet which would
> allow the configuration of these kinds of settings for all GNOME aware
> applications. The latest versions of MacOS has something similar which
> allows you to configure the apperance of the UI, maybe GNOME should have
> something similar. ?
> 
> (At the very least it should allow the configuation of colour, font, and
> Theme [when GTK becomes Theme aware] settings.)
> 

I'm all for configurability, but I think being able to choose which
menu the "Preferences..." item is in is going too far (if that is what
you are suggesting).

 - Maciej