On Wed, Sep 17, 2008 at 06:49:05PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > > And about the discussion if we should merge View and Window - menu: > > Every application I seen on my desktop, all Apple apps, all Mozilla > > apps, OpenOffice, Word 2003 (on XP), ... have a View AND a WINDOW > > menu, and there is a rationale behind it. > > Neither Word, OO or any of my Text-Editors has a Document-menu. > > I would be nice to dig the old thread concerning the current menu > structure. John Levon had a pretty through analysis of Higs at the > time.
I've been idly watching this thread. It's obviously unfair of me to complain about anything since it's been so long since I did something useful, but I do think if Edwin wants to re-work everything, it'd be good if he did the same kind of analysis I did first time around: - what the biggest problems are with the current structure - why a new structure would help - the guiding principles behind the design of the new structure - what each of the main HIGs have to say about both the old and new setup I'm not necessarily saying that a re-org shouldn't happen, but I do think people should bear in mind that all menu structures have problems, and all re-workings cause a lot of upheaval. That is, you'd better be pretty sure that the new system is so much better that it's worth pissing off your users. I thought so, and gained enough consensus to commit the changes, but I know there's still LyX hackers around who disagreed with me on this the *first* time round. I did this back in the day, so I'm aware of the kind of scars you can accumulate by upsetting folks in this way :) cheers, john
