[Usability][De]Select All and Select menus

[Lars Clausen <lrclause cs uiuc edu>]

Hi!

Just got a bug report for Dia
<URL:http://www.lysator.liu.se/~alla/dia/dia.html> today about the
placement of the [De]Select All menu items, which according to the HIG
should be in the Edit menu.  Now Dia has a number of other ways to select
or deselect objects, and we have a separate Select menu with those.  The
HIG doesn't mention what should be done with further selection entries --
if we move them all to the Edit menu, it becomes too large.  I see that
Gimp also has a separate Select menu, but I guess it's not HIG compliant
yet.  What would be the preferred setup when there's many selection menu
items? 

Thanks,
-Lars

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