RE: Menu items with icons

[Josh Steiner <Josh BerkeleyNet com>]

My thoughts right now are that the idea of putting all functions related
to the function as a whole under a single menu is a very good.  But why
would that deserve to be called to GNOME menu?  That just doesn't make
sense, becuae it _ISN'T_ the gnome menu... it has nothing to do with
GNOME as a whole.  It is quite clearly application specific.  Calling it
the GNOME menu (or lableing it with a foot icon) would make the user
think that this where they would go to affect GNOME settings, when in
reality it is not.  If this is an attempt at mimicing the Apple menu, it
is missing the point, because the apple menu affects system wide things
(control panel, etc.) where as the GNOME/Program menu does not (but then
again, maybe noone was implying this).

Josh

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Andy Coyne [SMTP:andy_coyne@modusmedia.com]
> Sent:	Wednesday, August 12, 1998 10:34 AM
> To:	gnome-list@gnome.org
> Subject:	Re: Menu items with icons
> 
> Couldn't agree more. -Andy
> 
> John R Sheets wrote:
> 
> > Adam Chodorowski wrote:
> > >
> > > Sometimes I don't get you guys. You give references on the GNOME
> > > homepage
> > > to the UI Hall of Shame, and then go on implementing things that
> are in
> > > that Hall of Shame. The use of a little graphic is in Hall of
> Shame,
> > > if I'm remembering correctly. So it the use of an 'Apply' button.
> >
> > Hmmm, okay.  I was just answering a question, and tried to relate
> > the tone of the current discussion in the gui-list.  I wasn't
> > pushing the idea.  On a personal level, I kinda like the idea.
> > It looks more natural that I would have thought, from seeing it
> > in gEdit.  However, I still do have some problems with it.
> > Remember, it's still an idea in development and design.  It's not
> > finished.  It may not even make it into the first draft of the
> > new style guide.  Who knows?  And even if it does, if the idea
> > doesn't fly on the gnome-list, then it'll be dropped.
> >
> > And no matter what, you'll be able to turn it off.  If it's a
> > problem, the default state will be text-only.  The important
> > concept was the separation of application-wide menu items into a
> > separate menu.  Whether that menu is called "Program" or "App" or
> > "GNOME" or holds the picture of a foot is secondary, and much
> > less important, especially if it's configurable.
> >
> > Anybody else have a reaction?
> >
> > John
> >
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