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9 years ago Hm, I kind of know about that, but could you point me to a place where this
rule is
written down so I can know more about its suggested use? Naming the File menu
as a
"watch" menu would be nonsensical to me, as it is not a menu to control watches;
there are commands that affect watches in the Edit menu.
All I can find is
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/draft_hig_new/menus-standard.html#th
e-file-menu
Some quotes:
"If your application does not operate on documents, name this item for the type
of
object it displays. For example, many games should have a Game instead of a
File menu."
"Adam noted in the last review that we don't make any suggestions for
applications
that do not edit document/files. In an OOUI, the Game menu would have items
such as
(modulo phraeseology) Open New Game, Open Game Settings, High Scores.
>For non-game UI there would be at the very least, Open as ... and Open
Settings."
Looking at the Apple HIG now:
http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelin
es/XHIGMenus/chapter_17_section_4.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP30000356-TPXREF103
Quotes:
"In general, place the menus that display commands to handle higher-level, more
universal objects toward the left of the menu bar and the menus that focus on
the
more specific entities toward the right."
What is interesting is that the Apple way-of-design includes an "application"
menu
before the "File" menu. Maybe we could rename the File menu into a "Specto"
menu, but
I doubt that would look fine in a GNOME desktop.
What is interesting is that Apple places actions like "about" and "quit" in the
Application menu, and stuff like "Open" and "Export" in the "File" menu (just
like
specto currently does).
So, I'm not certain what to do here. To some extent, I don't feel the current
layout
is confusing (at least, that's the best I could think of in terms of logic).
(Note: the term used in the English version of Specto is "Watch")Original comment by nekoh...@gmail.com on 3 Mar 2008 at 2:45
- Changed title: rename "File" menu
- Added labels: Component-UI, Easy, Priority-Low, Usability
- Removed labels: Priority-Medium
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
thibaut....@gmail.comon 2 Mar 2008 at 1:36