On Fri, Jun 06, 2003 at 02:13:45PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > 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.
I don't follow you here. I want to edit the preamble. Edit->Preamble. > 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. So you accept historical reasons after all. Now what about: "Historically, Preferences have been under Edit" > 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 That's about the time frame 1.4 was not usable. I've done all my work on 1.3.x since then and only discover 1.4 quirks when hunting bugs or similar... Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)
