Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:54:11 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> On Sun, Aug 9, 2009 at 8:51 PM, Eli Zaretskii<address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:21:46 +0200
> >> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> >> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> >>
> >> > 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.
> >
> > Yes, and that goes for subgroups as well.
> 
> 
> And the reason?

But you just quoted me explaining that, see above!