RE: Menu guidelines updated

["Blad, John Erling" <john erling blad aftenposten no>]

Could it be wise to add some additional layout styles if some
features are available or not?

For example an app could choose to act upon a single directory
without allowing delete and similar actions.

John

> -----Original Message-----
> From: colin z robertson [mailto:c z robertson ndirect co uk]
> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2001 8:12 PM
> To: usability gnome org; gnome-gui-list gnome org
> Subject: Re: Menu guidelines updated
> 
> 
> On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 12:27:27PM -0400, Michael T. Babcock wrote:
> > On the note of file opening, reverting ... the file menu really does
> > depend on what gets decided for a standard OPEN dialog.  If the
> > open dialog becomes something like MS' Office 2000 dialog
> > (I will have screenshots of it at 
> > http://www.fibrespeed.net/~mbabcock/images/office2k-open/
> > within the next 5 minutes or so for those who haven't seen
> > it), some of the File menu options become quite redundant.
> > If, OTOH, we go for complete simplicity in the open dialog,
> > we need more options on the File menu.
> 
> Yes, I can see that some of the File menu's responsibilities can be
> delegated to the dialog. I was working on the assumption that the
> dialog was going to remain simple. (If anyone knows otherwise -- hell,
> if anyone knows _anything_ about what's planned for the file dialogs
> -- please let me know.)
> 
> Whether those responsibilities should or shouldn't be delegated to the
> dialog is another matter. Opinions, anyone?
> 
> 
> > As for reverting within the opening of a file, I have seen a few
> > apps that offer a dialog such as (verbose on purpose, not
> > an actual dialog suggestion):
> > "You already have <filename> open in another window.
> > Would you like to open a new copy of it in a new window
> > or revert that open copy back to its last-saved state?
> > [ new copy | revert existing | cancel ]"
> 
> hmm. I like the option of opening a new window or continuing with the
> old one, but I'm still not sure about putting Revert in there. It's a
> rather dangerous command and it would make more sense to me to let the
> user request it explicitly.
> 
> colin
> 
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