Re: ANNOUNCE: Style Guide available for review.

[Sascha Ziemann <szi aibon ping de>]

Shawn T. Amundson wrote:

> Menubars should contain a 'File' menu which is the first menu button
> on the left side.  Usage of the 'File' menu in all GNOME applications
> guarentees a consistant interface, and allows the user to find the
> 'Exit' or 'Close' function quickly.

I still can not understand why people think, that Exit and File have
somthing in common!

Exit is something that the windowmanager takes care of. And if you want
it in the application create a application menu, which contains some
other global application entries like "Bug report" of "Preferences".

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