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

[Bruno Widmann <bwidmann utanet at>]

On Fri, Feb 16, 2001 at 10:23:35PM +0400, Vlad Harchev wrote:
> 
> 
>  As for fitting seamlessly - I think there is nothing to worry about - the
> presence of such menuitem won't break anything. It may just be inconvenient to
> some options that are meant for configuring UI aspects not relevant to some 
> app. But it won't break anything.
>

Most users are used to the "File" menu being the leftmost toplevel
menubar entry. Putting a "per app UI customization menu" there breaks
the "feel" of the interface. 
Toplevel Menuentrys waste screen real-estate, and should actually be usefull
most of the time, whereas your suggestion would be usefull maybee to only 1/3
the users for a very short time (once its configured correctly you don't need
it anymore, and most users won't bother to customize the UI anyway).
I think that stuff belongs into the apps "Settings" menu, but that propably
hard to implement uniformly. If it's something that customizes 
a toolbar/menubar it should go into a rightclick contextmenu.

all just IMHO of course...