Re: [Usability]Re: Should the HIG advise use of Check and Radio menu items?

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 02:45:34PM -0500, Dave Bordoley wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 14:42, Calum Benson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-12-11 at 19:35, Calum Benson wrote:
> > 
> > > I guess we ideally need to invent some standard way of getting at the
> > > menubar even when it's hidden, e.g. by implementing it as something like
> > > an auto-hiding edge panel, or just making sure it temporarily reappears
> > > when you press F10, or Alt+F, or whatever.
> > 
> > Although I should also point out of course that the HIG recommends
> > against being able to hide the menubar at all :)
> > 
> > Cheeri,
> > Calum.
> 
> Which leads me to ask why the terminal even has this preference?
> 

Why does the terminal have most of its prefs? Lots of them are silly.

Consider it payback for metacity. ;-)

I don't see the point in fighting the battle to strip down the
terminal, because the terminal is a unix-geeks-only thing anyhow.

Havoc