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Re: Fiddling with the menus


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Fiddling with the menus
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:07:21 +0300

> From: Juri Linkov <address@hidden>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,  address@hidden
> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:14:23 +0300
> 
> It is also important to remove some keywords.  You just 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.
> 
> Exactly the same can be said about keywords.  There are keywords that
> have no mnemonic value like "convenience", "extensions", "tools".
> They should be removed with re-indexing existing packages.

Yes, I agree.




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