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Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!)
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Lennart Borgman |
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Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!) |
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Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:21:46 +0200 |
On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:15 PM, Eli Zaretskii<address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:10:41 +0200
>> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>> So you are saying that subgroups are bad because they do not give you
>> enough structure?
>
> I'm saying that subgroups called "advanced" are bad.
You said
In a good UI, each feature should be put under a group whose name
gives a hint that the feature could be reasonably looked up in that
group. Having group names such as "Advanced" or "More options", that
have no mnemonic value, is abusing the menus, which are supposed to
make the job of finding a feature _easier_, not harder.
Maybe the name "Advanced" is bad but we were talking about the
structure of the menus. Making a subgroup named "Advanced" is not bad
IMO since it is a subgroup with a context.
Rather, within that context it may be a very good mnemonic.
- Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/08
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/08
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!),
Lennart Borgman <=
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, Jason Rumney, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, Jason Rumney, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Stephen J. Turnbull, 2009/08/09