Re: Menus

[Tom Vogt <tom lemuria org>]

Khimenko Victor <gnome-gui@khim.sch57.msk.ru> wrote:
> Fo example in Netscape Communicator I'm have "Encoding" submenu as second level
> submenu in "View" menu. But it's by far most used submenu here in Russia !
> I'll be really glad to see it as top-level menu (or may be even better just few
> items from there in button bar of my Netscape window). But I'm could easily
> imagine that this menu will be [almost] useless for english-speacking users.
> Or gwp: when you are in "text entering mode" you'll need one set of tools handy,
> if you are in "editor" mode you'll need other set of tools, etc.

I suppose this has been solved already with tearable menus? of course you
have to be able to tear (and stick to the desktop) sub-menus as well, but if
you look at, e.g. afterstep, the whole root menu works that way. it's great.
if you want to test all the backgrounds, you take decorations->pictures and
then just stick the list to the desktop and click on them in succession. :)


> just now :-) I'm even think that this approch will give as possibility to
> create "self-adjustable" menus without applications rewriting if this approach
> turned out to be usable (I'm not sure that this approach will be usable but
> who knows?).

<aargh>:)

the self-adjustable menus are one of the most stupid things I've ever seen
in a gui. if there's a single rule of ui design they don't violate, someone
please tell me.

they're simply awful.


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