On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 03:01:17PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > That's of course a strong reason unless I see advantages in any other > scheme.
See below (and yes, it is). > The rationale? 'We edit settings of something'. This is not historically the focus of the Edit menu. The Edit menu generally contains actions that apply to text within a document rather than the document itself. Most importantly it contains frequent actions, and actions that apply to a selection. Thus it is important that it's kept as short as possible. The rationale is that the object the user will have in mind when wanting to change document wide settings is "document". We have a menu for that. So, it's easily discoverable and (arguably, clearly) more logical to have Settings there. In contrast, things found regularly on Edit menus apply to objects like "the current selection", "the current part of the document" or "the last thing I did". Find/replace by this argument is somewhat of a black sheep, but history dictates it must go under Edit anyway. I've trained myself already to find Document->Settings. It didn't take long. regards, john p.s. the time to have complained about all this was in the six months or so I was posting updates and asking for comments ... oh well
