Re: Look & feel, future plans

[Magnus Lofgren]

On 2002-05-08 21:34:35 +0200 Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:

> >   From: "Christian Edward Gruber" <cgruber@israfil.net>
> > Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 14:50:18 -0400
> >
> > Because in MacOS look and feel, things like QUIT are not at the end of the
> > horizontal menu, but at the bottom of the file menu.
> >
> > Orthogonal re-positioning is easy.  Re-weaving menuitems into other
> > combinations... that's hard.  Especially when GNUstep and Cocoa use
> > serialized gui specifications, that include nesting and positioning
> > information. It's just untenable.
> >
> > cg.
>
> I'd  just like to  point that  some users  have difficulties  with the
> "Quit"  menu  item  being  in  the  "File" menu.   It  would  be  more
> "user-friendly" to have it in clear sight in the menu bar.
>
>
> (And I won't say anything about the horror of the application menu...).

Re-weaving menuitems isn't really nescessary;

Vertical:

Application.app
Submenu        >
Submenu        >
Submenu        >
Hide           h
Quit           q


And horizontal:

Application.app   Submenu     >   Submenu    >   Submenu    >
Hide           h
Quit           q


So the menu title becomes another submenu, and the contents, in this case, 
'Hide' and 'Quit', wich was in the root of the menu, get's placed in this new 
submenu.