Re: Application menu.



Ah...  Memories....

http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-gui-list/1998-August/msg00305.html

On Mon, 2003-09-15 at 08:18, iain wrote:
> I'm sure this has been brought up before, but I can't remember anything
> about it.
> 
> What are people's views on an "Application Menu" in each program? By
> application menu, I mean a menu like on Macs, with the "iTunes" menu
> before the File menu.
> http://www.stanford.edu/~tristanh/images/bibliographerX_shots/application_menu.jpg
> is a good shot of it.
> 
> Having this menu would mean we would have a place for the Preferences
> menu item, which everyone hates in the "Edit" menu, but can't think of a
> better place for it. Plus the File->Quit item would move here, and I do
> think this is a better place for Help->About really.
> (And the program with the dumbest menus ever - gnome-sound-recorder
> could have more sensible menus too)
> 
> Would it be possible to change to this (if people think its a good idea)
> for 2.6, or would it be in the future?
> 
> iain
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Benjamin Kahn <xkahn ximian com>




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