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

[Lennart Borgman]

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? You can hardly avoid seeing the contexts in the menus.
It is actually one of the main thing in a cascading menu.