Re: Right-justified help menu?

["David Tabachnikov (NetHunter)" <captain isdn net il>]

Ben FrantzDale wrote:
> 
> ----- 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.
> 

Please note that I said, that the DEFAULT behaviour is left-justified.
If a person is used to it on the right (actually, I've used the mac,
win3.1, win95, and others, so I'm used that the help menu is in a
different location each time, but I prefer it on the right) he can
change that for all the GNOME apps. If the person is a newbie, he will
find it right away on the left.

> 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.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Ivan Jager
> > >
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