Re: [Ayatana] File menu

[Alexander Lancey <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I would put the application's name behind the files name in most if not all instances. It really bugs me when some applications more than fill the space shown for window title with just the app name.

On Wed, 2010-11-10 at 00:20 +0100, frederik.nnaji@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
>     Hi appi, nice thinking!
>     How about ...
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>     On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 23:19, appi2012@xxxxxxxxx <appi2012@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >         ____________________________________________________
> >         |[App Name]|[Doc Type]| Edit | Tools | Help |
> >         ----------------------------------------------------
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>      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."

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>     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.

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>     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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