Re: Proposed changed menu structure

["Andreas J. Guelzow" <aguelzow math concordia ab ca>]

On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 00:56, Martin Hoffmann wrote:
> Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: 
>
> > I would like to propose to change the menu structure as given below.
>
> Two comments, if I may. 
>
> > File
> >   New
> >   Open...
> >   ---
> >   (recent files)
>
> Gimp 1.3 has recent files in a sub menu callen "Open Recent".
> This seems to be a good idea because it makes the file menu 
> shorter and the feature isn't used that often.
>
> The other comment is about the order of top-level items
> which according to the proposal goes like this:
>
> > File
> > Edit
> > Cell
> > Sheet
> > View
> > Format
> > Tools
> > Data
> > Help 
>
> I have checked the Gnome HIG which demands View to be
> next to Edit. In addition I would swap Cell and Sheet
> because then the object related items follow the order
> from largest to smallest, i.e., file -> view -> sheet ->
> cell (with interruption by the mandatory Edit menu).

Thank you Martin,

both of these comments sound like great ideas!

Andreas

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Andreas J. Guelzow <aguelzow math concordia ab ca>
Concordia University College of Alberta

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