Re: Come fix bugs! (Batteries included)

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 11:20 -0400, Michael Henson wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 16:55 +0200, Alexander Larsson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2004-10-11 at 09:33 -0400, Michael Henson wrote:
> > > 
> > > Well . . what if the menu's text is just dependent on the setting, so
> > > with always_use_browser_mode it says New Window, and in spatial mode
> > > it would just open a spatial window for the desktop, or raise the
> > > existing one.
> > 
> > Why would you want a menu item to open a spatial window for the desktop?
> > We're doing all we can to keep the context menus small, this seems quite
> > unncecessary.
> > 
> 
> I'm just brainstorming how this should be handled -- if at all. My
> reasoning was, that assuming having a New Window option available from
> the desktop made sense in always_use_browser mode, what functionality,
> if any would be shown to users who had not chosen that option? Having
> operations that are only visible depending on the browsing mode could
> get kind of confusing for people.
> 
> If it is something doesn't make sense to implement for either mode and
> is better served by just having a panel launcher, etc, perhaps we should
> mark the bug as WONTFIX or something? (ref:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143650)

I think it makes sense to add it with always_use_browser, but not at all
in spatial mode.

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