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Coquery is a free corpus query tool for linguists, lexicographers, translators, and anybody who wishes to search and analyse a text corpus.
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Reorganize menus #194

Closed gkunter closed 7 years ago

gkunter commented 8 years ago

The content of the menus needs to be restructured. Basically, every function that is made available somewhere in the program should also be accessible via the menu. This follows the advice from "About Face" (Cooper et al. 2014, 4th edition, ch. 18):

A scan of the menus should make clear the scope of the application and the depth and breadth of its various facilities.

This requires a redesign of what is still called the "Output" menu so that the context menus are always visible even if no column or row is selected. Also, the "Visualization" menu should be available. But perhaps most importantly, the functionality of the "Data management" pane needs to be provided by a menu (or several menus?).

gkunter commented 7 years ago

There should be basically two more entries in the 'Output' menu: one entry that opens an 'External links' dialog and one that opens the 'Add function' dialog. The 'External links' dialog needs still to be written. It should feature an instance of the resource tree and a button that opens the current external link selector.