Re: [Texmacs-dev] Top level menus

[Stéphane Payrard]

On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 12:19:21AM +0200, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
> 
> I continued thinking about how the reduce the number
> of top level menus. Here are some thoughts.

I am not against the multiplication of the number of top level
menus if they contribute to diminish the depth of them.

> 
> 1. Top level menus should not be dimmed but disappear
>    when they are non relevant. This exception seems
>    quite essential because of the wide variety of things
>    which are potentially possible with TeXmacs.


Probably, for dynamic items we don't want to dim, a rule of thumb is
to segragate them to the end of a menu or a bar.

So the first bar should be:

| static items | dynamic items          | help |
                                        ^
    a                                    -------- help at the very right

BTW: in Qt applis. it seems that if a bar does not fit because
the window is not large enoguh, it is folded.


> 
> 2. We might regroup the actual Text and Paragraph menus
>    in one Format menu with entries Font, Color, Language and Paragraph.
>    Changes of format are *always* local changes in environment variables.
>    Consequently, the Document menu continues to exist,
>    because it deals with global settings for the document.
> 
> 3. We may rename Structure simply as Text,
>    because it concerns markup for text mode.
>    When switching to math mode, it naturally becomes Mathematics.
>    (I finally like the idea of a Mathematics menu;
>    each specific class of markup, like Mathematics, Physics,
>    Table, Tree, Graphics, etc. should have its own top level menu.)
> 
> 4. "View Go Tools Settings" is too much.
>    At least one of this menus should be incorporated elsewhere.
>    * Maybe Settings in Tools or Edit; we will have a special widget
>      later for settings or dedicated browsable pages.
>    * Maybe embed Go into the File menu.
>    Nevertheless, two of the menus (at least) should stay.
> 



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