Re: `New' sub-menu in desktop's rightclick-menu

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Christian Rose <menthos@menthos.com> writes:
> On 22 May 2002, Lars Weber wrote:
> > this is perhaps nothing for the Gnome 2.0 release anymore because of the
> > UI-freeze but as there already four `New ...' items in the desktop's
> > rightclick-menu I wonder whether they should be moved to their own `New'
> > sub-menu like in the following mockup:
> >
> >   <http://me.in-berlin.de/~lars/cruft/nautilus-rightclick.png>
> 
> This actually has a localization implication. The form of "New" as an
> adjective does in many languages depend upon the subject. English is of
> course an exception here. An example (using Swedish):
> 
> New folder           Ny mapp
> New window           Nytt fönster

[...]

> One possible solution is to repeat the "new" in the submenu, which would
> make the situation slightly better:
> 
> New -> New window    Ny -> Nytt fönster
>        New folder          Ny mapp

I've been thinking about this. Another solution would be to call the
submenu "New object" or "New item" something like that. Then the
repeated use of "new" wouldn't be necessary.

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Ole Laursen
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