simplified menu editing [Re: what's going on with menus?]

[Mark McLoughlin <markmc redhat com>]

Hi Calum,

On Thu, 2004-05-20 at 17:02, Calum Benson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 18:13, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
> 
> >   5) Write a simple menu editor for the panel which allows you to
> >      enable/disable menu items - it would just generate a .menu file in
> >      .config with a set of <Include>/<Exclude>s[2].
> 
> Just to kick off some discussion, then, here's a quick sketch of what's
> probably about the simplest useful GUI you could have to meet this
> requirement:
> 
> http://www.gnome.org/~calum/usability/specs/menu-edit/

	Thanks much for taking a look at this. It looks like a good start. Some
comments:

  + You're right, we can't re-order the items

  + I think we can make something like this work nicely, but only for 
    entries that initially (before any editing) appear in the default 
    menu - i.e. when you start the app for the first time, there will be
    no disable items.

    The problem is that, I don't think there's any way we can easily
    figure out where an item which is disabled by the system wide menu
    would go if it *wasn't* disabled. Perhaps we can do compare the
    layout ignoring <Excludes> with the normal layout. It needs some 
    thought ...

  + Allowing entire menus to be disabled is a good idea IMHO. I'd 
    imagine it would be common for people to disable the Accessibility 
    menu, for instance. The other approach is just that the menu doesn't
    appear if its empty.

  + Instant apply seems fine to me ...

  + I'm not sure why we'd want the "Show All" thing. It sounds like it 
    would significantly complicate the interface.

Thanks,
Mark.