I just have installed Blackbox 0.61.1: /nice/ :) ... so far.
And I have remarked (while updating my menu), --just remarked now!--, that
the following might be made:
[submenu] (some-title) {some-extra-title-or-comment}.
If {some-extra-title-or-comment} is empty, then `some-title' will be used
by default. And I like that!
There is some article (I don't remember ... I should look for my
photocopies somewhere, perhaps it's from Software Practice and
Experience): "on choosing identifiers" (I believe).
In the article is said (among other things): one item/thing should be
abbreviated in only one way --consistently. Example ... don't use, if
possible, identifiers such: 'number', 'num', 'nr', `no' in the same one program.
You like `number'? OK. But then please use `number_of_things' too (or
`things' at least), not `nr_of_things' nor `num_of_things'. Or: if you
use `num_of_things' then `number' should be called `num' from the
beginning. And so on. (If some one is interested I will look for the
reference.)
This rule is BTW compatible with the principle of the least amazement or
least surprise.
My point, now. I have retouched my `menu': e.g., `Style' --> `Choose a
style...' is a little bit too banal IMHO. (What would you else make with a
style --here?) I prefer: Style --> Style, tout court. And so on, I like
the maximum of consistency (at least in the authoritarian world of automata),
all these retouches can be made except ...
Except: is there a way to change --through the menu-- the `Configuration'
entry too? I would like to see this: Configuration --> Configuration,
instead of Configuration --> Config Options. (I don't know if Config Options
--> Config Options would go, but I would like it less). Or, even better, I
would like to make Configure --> Configure (given that there is a
Reconfigure). Or then change Reconfigure in Reconfiguration. Et cetera.
Desole' for the long post.
/roy
