Re: PANEL OBJECTS

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

On 12 May 1998, Rob Browning wrote:

> 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.

	I think Windows 98 solves this problem that way...  They have the
ability to drag new items onto the start menu...  And so they'd have to
keep the order somewhere...

						-Ben

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