[Flightgear-devel] Moving menus (aka, usability)

2013-09-26 Thread James Turner
I was reviewing the current menu structure and would like to propose a couple of changes. Partly because we have too many menus, all quite short, but also to remove some bad terminology. Each of these changes is independent, comments explicitly requested: - merge 'Autopilot' into the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Moving menus (aka, usability)

2013-09-26 Thread Stuart Buchanan
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 11:45 AM, James Turner wrote: I was reviewing the current menu structure and would like to propose a couple of changes. Partly because we have too many menus, all quite short, but also to remove some bad terminology. Each of these changes is independent, comments

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Moving menus (aka, usability)

2013-09-26 Thread AJ MacLeod
On Thu, 26 Sep 2013 11:45:38 +0100 James Turner wrote: The Autopilot menu change does make sense (although there may possibly be a case for keeping such a flight-critical menu rapidly accessed at the top level?) - potentially rename 'Environment' to 'World' If most of the AI stuff moves to

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Moving menus (aka, usability)

2013-09-26 Thread James Turner
On 26 Sep 2013, at 16:21, AJ MacLeod aj-li...@adeptopensource.co.uk wrote: That's exactly what the word environment means though, isn't it! I really don't think there's any point at all in changing the name of that menu entry; the current one perfectly accurately describes things around

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Moving menus (aka, usability)

2013-09-26 Thread Thomas Albrecht
The Autopilot menu change does make sense (although there may possibly be a case for keeping such a flight-critical menu rapidly accessed at the top level?) I don't see this need. When I'm in a hurry, I use my left hand to enter a keyboard shortcut, rather than taking my right hand off the

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Moving menus (aka, usability)

2013-09-26 Thread Clement de l'Hamaide
Hi, - merge 'Autopilot' into the Equipment menu, as a section (probably the first section) I have no objection with this. - potentially rename 'Environment' to 'World' Environment word looks fine to me. A quick search on Google reveal that X-Plane use Environment but FSX use World.

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Moving menus (aka, usability)

2013-09-26 Thread sb356607
You know one of the things that needs to happen with light-year is that the menus need to be accessible for the visually impaired it is very difficult to get to the menus we need to see the menus on the menu bar and have a little more accessibility to this because I use this mostly by keyboard