Re: PANEL OBJECTS

[Rob Browning <rlb cs utexas edu>]

robert havoc pennington <rhpennin@midway.uchicago.edu> writes:

> One unpleasantry the Interface Hall of Shame mentions (or used to) is that
> neither Windows nor Mac lets you choose the order of the items on the
> menu; this is a consequence of storing the menu items in the filesystem. 
> Optional ordering information could conceivably be added to .desktop
> files, or .directory files, to deal with this.

Or you could just define that the names of all the files representing
menu items have a specific format like:

  number.name.whatever

and the initial number determines ordering, but doesn't show up in the
menu.

-- 
Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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