I agree with Heikki that some of the menus are worth reviewing. In
addition to the 3 bugs that Philippe mentioned, it's our intention to
write up a menu spec for Beta which consolidates the changes that we
have identified so far (and includes the context menus). I haven't
yet talked to Mimi about whether or not she would like to rework any
other menu items.
Sheila
On Aug 15, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:
Hi,
Heikki Toivonen wrote:
I think our menus are getting cluttered. I have a couple of
suggestions
to improve the situation:
1. Get rid of the View Toolbar, View Sidebar, View Statusbar
entries in
the View menu. Does anyone actually need them? If somebody really
needs
them, we could make an optional parcel that adds those menu items
back.
IMHO, the View menu is OK and even if I'm not using those options,
suppressing them won't solve the real menu clutter issue, namely,
the Collection and Test menu (your second point).
2. Create a default location for extension parcels to add their menu
items. Mozilla has the Tools menu, under which many Mozilla addons
add
their stuff. I think we could also use a Tools menu, and move the
amazon, evdb and flickr menus there. In the future it could also
house
the menu entry to launch the extension manager (think Firefox
again). I
also think some of the menu entries in the Test menu could be moved
under tools menu.
+1 in providing a little bit more "by default" structure so that
3rd party parcel devs have a good place to put their ware. A Tools
menu seems to be a good idea.
-1 though to restricting 3rd party devs to use this menu (not that
you said this explicitly but it's what I read between the
lines...). Remember that everything is a parcel in Chandler and
everything is (and should be) open to extension. Hell, even our own
stuff are parcels!
Note also that there are 3 bugs (targeted alpha4 BTW...) that do
target this issue specifically:
- 4617 separate parcel for test menu items
- 5173 Put 3rd party parcels into a hierarchical menu
- 5236 Consolidate Collection menu
Cheers,
- Philippe
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