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Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!)
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Lennart Borgman |
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Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!) |
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Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:54:11 +0200 |
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Eli Zaretskii<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:21:46 +0200
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>> > I'm saying that subgroups called "advanced" are bad.
>>
>> You said
>>
>> In a good UI, each feature should be put under a group whose name
>> gives a hint that the feature could be reasonably looked up in that
>> group. Having group names such as "Advanced" or "More options", that
>> have no mnemonic value, is abusing the menus, which are supposed to
>> make the job of finding a feature _easier_, not harder.
>
> Yes, and that goes for subgroups as well.
And the reason? You can hardly avoid seeing the contexts in the menus.
It is actually one of the main thing in a cascading menu.
- Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/08
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/08
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!),
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, Jason Rumney, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, Jason Rumney, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09