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[David Siegel <david.siegel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 25, 2009, at 9:14AM , Rick Spencer wrote:

> On Tue, 2009-08-25 at 09:06 -0500, David Siegel wrote:
>
> > For a concrete example, consider Evolution. To remove the Evolution
> > launcher from the messaging menu, you'd have to launch Evolution and
> > set up your email account before you can access Evolution's
> > preferences and disable the launcher. If the messaging menu lets you
> > access a simple blacklist, you can just go there and uncheck  
> > Evolution
> > and be done with it.
> >
> > David
> Assuming that users prefer to act directly on objects, would it not be
> more direct to allow them to right click on the menu item to remove  
> it?
> This would be consistent with how users remove the Evo launcher from  
> the
> panel.
>
> Cheers, Rick

Context menus on menus themselves is something generally avoided. I'm  
pretty sure it's a big no-no in the GNOME HIG as well, but I'd have to  
check.

David

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