RE: ANNOUNCE: Style Guide available for review.

["Ben 'The Con Man' Kahn" <xkahn cybersites com>]

On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Guillermo S. Romero / unnamed / Familia Romero wrote:

> >BTW, as was already suggested (regardless of how many to save the user
> >has configured), if there are not that many, empty entries should be
> >left there so that the "Exit" item always has the same position.
> 
> Use a submenu then:
> 
> ###################################################
> #File          Edit
> #====###############################################
> +====--------------+
> |New               |
> |Load...           |+------------+
> |Load lasts used ->>>Foo1.txt    |
> |Save              ||Bar36.doc   |
> |Save as...        |+------------+
> +------------------+
> |Exit              |
> +------------------+
> 
> That was my original idea.
> Pros:
> You keep File menu small.
> You can have a really big submenu (it can ocupy all the screen, instead of
> sharing space with other entries, cos is a submenu, not part of the original
> menu).
> Things become logical ordered "File->Load lasts->this_one.txt".
> 
> Cons:
> You have to do one more mouse/key step to load previous files.

	The jot editor on SGI does that.  (I'll have to publish a
screenshot, I can tell.)  I REALLY hate it.  For some reason, I just end
up not using it.  I'd like to see this avoided.

						-Ben

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