Re: Right-justified help menu?

["Ben FrantzDale" <frantb rpi edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: David Tabachnikov (NetHunter) <captain@isdn.net.il>
To: Ivan Jager <ivanjager@bigfoot.com>
Cc: <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2000 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: Right-justified help menu?


> Actually he got a point. How about defaulting it to be with the other
> menus, but putting an item in Settings->User Interface->Applications,
> something like "Right justify rarely used menus" or something, and then
> add to GNOME, gnome_menu_item_set_rare(GTK_MENU_ITEM(), true); or
> something similiar. And I do belive more options like that should be
> added to GNOME. So a person can completely configure its feel. And that
> does not make tech support harder, since usually if a person changed an
> option, he knows whats the default.

I'm sory but I really don't like that idea. I'm all for configurability but
when it comes to something like the help menu that will be most used  by
newbies I feel very strongly that it should always be in the same place.

--Ben

> Ivan Jager wrote:
> >
> > Personally I prefer the help menu on the right, at least if there is
> > nothing between it and the other menus. If the menu was in the panel
> > then I would like all the menus together.
> >
> > It would be good if gnome automatically justified it, so that half the
> > apps wouldn't have it on the right and the other half on the left.
> >
> > Gnome's look is quite configurable in general, we need to do something
> > about the feel.
> >
> > Alan Shutko wrote:
> > > "James M. Cape" <jcape@jcinteractive.com> writes:
> > > > Well, right-justification of the Help menu may make it easier for
you to
> > > > find because you are used to it, but it doesn't for ex-users of
every
> > > > other operating system on the planet
> > >
> > > Not Mac users, iirc.
> > >
> > > > I frankly would not be surprised if the reason you are so keen on
> > > > the help menu in that location is because you had to force yourself
> > > > to remember it (either through repetition or use),
> > >
> > > The advantage of putting things in corners is that one doesn't have to
> > > scan to get there... you can just slam the mouse up and right.
> > > Whether Help is worthy of such a position is another debate.
> >
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> > Ivan Jager
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