Re: idea: special menuitem in MenuBar of each gnome application

[Lee Mallabone <lee fonicmonkey net>]

Alan Shutko wrote:

> Most programs will benefit from customization (even the kind seen ten
> years ago on MS Office for the Mac where you can change menu and
> toolbar order) but as we've seen, it's sufficiently difficult to allow
> such customization that most app developers won't do it unless an
> existing framework makes it easy.  

Most is not *all* though. I'd have thought it would be better to make 
more specific changes, like toolbars that can be easily setup to be 
configurable, rather than requiring all apps to have a feature that may 
or may not be relevant to the app.

> Sure, it's possible that users will customize their apps such that
> it's inconsistent with other people or the default.  But we have
> customizable window managers, a customizable panel, customizable
> menus, customizable shell, customizable keybindings.  If UI
> consistency is the point, damn the users, we should get rid of all of
> that.

Are you saying (to name one example) that you *like* the fact that 
mozilla is skin-able? Personally I think the inconsistency with the rest 
of my Gnome desktop makes it look ugly...

And as for everything already being customizable - a glance around the 
computer science labs in my University shows the majority of people 
haven't even changed their background image, let alone their panel, 
theme, window manager, etc.

Of course the best thing to do would be for someone to code up Vlad's 
suggestion and then people can decide if it's A Good Thing or not more 
objectively...

Regards,

Lee.