On 01/10/12 10:04, Pavel Sanda wrote:
Tommaso Cucinotta wrote:
-) kill the Document menu
Most of the movements look like being enforced by the idea of killing Document
menu. What is the rationale for it? The distinction looks clear to me - Edit
deals with the actual content of the document, while Document with document
as a whole.
I can only repeat myself:
"Shortly, whatever can be shown or hidden is in View, whatever can be
edited is in Edit or Insert."
For example, in the current menus, I can insert a TOC from Insert->...,
but an appendix from Document->...
I can show the source and message panes from View->..., but the TOC pane
stays in Document->...
I can't see (user's viewpoint) why messages log stays in View->..., but
latex log stays in Document->...
Enabling change tracking is something related to Edit-ing, but I find it
in Document->... (i.e., LibreOffice has it in Edit->...)
Simply, current LyX menus seem to spread things throughout those menu
voices in a weird way, IMO of course. The alternating between editing
actions (Edit), appearance ones (View), then again editing (Insert),
then again view-related stuff (Navigate), then again editing
(Document)...., puzzles me quite a lot. Think of the new user facing
with those menus :-)!
I just tried to fix (a bit of) such weirdness, well aware that changing
the GUI including menus is especially a pain for whoever is already used
to them.
T.
