Open GoogleCodeExporter opened 9 years ago
I don't think that moving it to the app menu is correct according to Apple's
HIG or to the prevailing conventions of OS X applications. The app menu is for
items which apply to the entire application, not to individual files or
windows, which is how the preference items under MacVim's Edit menu work.
Per Apple's menu guide-lines:
> The app menu contains items that apply to the app as a whole rather than to a
specific document or other window.
A quick reading of the HIG seems to suggest these items actually belong under
the File menu (the same place you have other document-specific settings like
those related to printing and document margins):
> In general, each command in the File menu applies to a single file (most
commonly, a user-created document). ...
> If you provide document-specific preferences items, place them above printing
commands. Also, be sure to give your document-specific preferences a unique
name, such as Page Setup, rather than Preferences. Note that the Preferences
and Quit commands, which apply to the app as a whole, are in the app menu.
Additionally, Apple's guide-lines about application preferences say:
> Don’t provide a preferences toolbar item. Because the toolbar should
contain only frequently used items, it does not make sense to include a
preferences item in it. Instead, make app-level preferences available in the
app menu (for more information, see The App Menu); and make document-specific
preferences available in the File menu (for more information, see The File
Menu).
Just saying
Original comment by d...@dana.is
on 9 Mar 2015 at 6:04
Original issue reported on code.google.com by
peterjel...@gmail.com
on 5 Mar 2015 at 1:31Attachments: