On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 1:53 PM, Carlos Garcia Campos <[email protected]>wrote:

>
> >
> > Nautilus has 4 buttons - 2 menus and 2 presets for views.
> > Documents has NONE, just a magnifying glass and a check button...
> > Evince has nothing in the app menu, and 2 impossibly unorganized window
> > menus - I never know which one to open...
>
> Evince has help in the app menu, and it doesn't have About because the
> implementation is a modal dialog attached to a specific window. It has a
> view menu and a gear menu, and I agree it's not easy to know which
> options are in each menu. It's not even obvious that the view menu is
> shown by pressing on the button.
>

Not to pick on evince, but I do think people make a bit too much of the
'can't be window-specific' rule. Our app menu technology can deal just fine
with window-specific actions in the app menu - they apply to the currently
active window. I don't think that is very problematic or confusing to
users. The much more important rule is that the app menu should not hide
actions that are frequently or even just regularly needed when interacting
with the application - those are much better off inside the window.
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