Abandon customisable menus?

Dyalog / ride

Cross-platform IDE for Dyalog APL

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Abandon customisable menus? #340

Closed jayfoad closed 2 years ago

jayfoad commented 6 years ago

I think we should consider abandoning the system that lets you customise RIDE's menus. Advantages:

It'll simplify the source code.
At the moment, in order to put something like "Show Language Bar" on the menu, you are obliged to create a command code (like LBR) for it. This is (a) extra work and (b) means it pops up in Preferences->Shortcuts where the user can assign a keystroke to it, even if it doesn't make much sense to have a keyboard shortcut for it. This means that developers tend to put things in Preferences->Code instead of on a menu item, just because it's less work.
I'd like to have menus on the Connect page, being a subset of the full set of menus (e.g. maybe just File->Quit and Help->About). To do this properly with the current customisable system we'd have to come up with and implement some syntax to say which menu items appear when you're on the Connect page.

abrudz commented 6 years ago

I think it is nice to have commands for everything. There are people who like using keyboard shortcuts for most tasks.

Allowing customisation of the menus makes it easy to use alternative languages (like BUILDSE allows).

I find it really valuable to be able to to have "links" in the menu, e.g. to open the idiom library (#65) or other APL-related webpages.

mbaas2 commented 6 years ago

+1 ;-)

Adám Brudzewsky notifications@github.com schrieb am Mi. 18. Apr. 2018 um 11:25:

I think it is nice to have commands for everything. There are people who like using keyboard shortcuts for most tasks.

Allowing customisation of the menus makes it easy to use alternative languages (like BUILDSE allows).

I find it really valuable to be able to to have "links" in the menu, e.g. to open the idiom library (#65 https://github.com/Dyalog/ride/issues/65) or other APL-related webpages.

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e9gille commented 6 years ago

Actually, commands added to the menu don't automatically get listed for keyboard shortcuts, this is listed separately. Adding simple commands to the menu is easy. Adding preferences that should persist (boolean switches) to the menu is a little bit more work. Adding it to the preferences window is the most work involved.

I don't know what sort of menus a user would want to add to the Connect page, but most of the default ones don't really apply outside the context of a running session.