Hi appi, nice thinking! How about ... On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:19, appi2...@gmail.com <appi2...@gmail.com> wrote: > > ____________________________________________________ > |[App Name]|[Doc Type]| Edit | Tools | Help | > ---------------------------------------------------- >
having App Icon first? > > - [App Name]: e.g. "Rhythmbox." This menu contains everything to do > with the entire application. In general, it would contain the "View" menu > as > a submenu, "Plugins," "Preferences," "About," "Close," and "Quit." > > that's a lot.. but the principle seems reasonable: [AppName] Menu should contain the main functions of an application, and the option to quit. I could agree blindly to the rest, but my guts are telling me that submenus will lead to trouble, if not carefully designed and positioned. > > - [Doc Type]: e.g "Music." This menu contains anything to do with the > stuff the application deals with. Items like "New," "Save," "Export," > "Import," and "Properties" > - Edit: Would contain all normal items in edit except for Preferences. > All other items are things dealing with the editing of the file. The only > way preferences fits in is in the sense of "Editing Preferences." But since > that phrase does not work with anything else in the menu, it doesn't > belong. > - Tools: This space is for utilities that help the user. Therefore, > things like "Find [& replace]" and extensions' menus belong here. > > We don't know whether all so many menus are actually necessary.. If at all, then it depends strongly on the App, what names i would give to menu 2 and menu 3 etc.. > > - Help: This menu is for access to manuals. Figuring out the version of > softwares I'm running has nothing to do with Helping, so it doesn't belong > here. > > Help should always be available imo. I also think that Help should be an Indicator Menu, not part of the application menu or of GlobalMenu.
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