On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 20:32, Luc Pionchon wrote: > On Fri, 2004-07-16 at 02:00, Alan Horkan wrote: > > [SNIP] > > > [2] I renamed Objects to just Object because that seems to be the > > convention when naming menus (File not Files, Image not Images, Layer not > > Layers). > > I think "ObjectS" was "right". > Menus should be, as much as possible, organized as phrases: > object + verb, or > verb + object > > Insert + this > Select + that > Layer + do this (on the (current) layer) > > In our case, most of actions are applied to all selected objectS (group, > align, send to back, ...) so IMHO "ObjectS".
Checking through Gimp, Abiword, Sodipodi, GnuCash, Galeon, Glade, I find nothing supporting that reasoning. But then, there's few that have menus with similar properties: Two of the menu items and an entire submenu only makes sense when multiple objects are selected. > While you are experiencing with menus, you may play with that: > > In the diagram window, "File" could be renamed to "Diagram": It kinda makes sense, but also breaks with standard menu setup. > Diagram / > New > Open... > (...) > Print... > Properties... (from the current "Diagram" menu) > Close. (no "quit"!) Why wouldn't you want to be able to quit from a Diagram window? > > About the main application window, > > the "File" menu "traditionaly" includes actions related to both the > opened file, and the application itself (some kind of metaphore "the > file is an hyper-document with tools integrated into itself"), which I > do not like vey much, moreover it does not apply to dia: one window is > the application, the others are the documents (files). > > MacOS has an "application" menu (named as the application itself) > including application related entries, like "preferences", etc. and... > "quit". That's a very different cup of fish. Following that would make us weirdly different from all other GTK programs. > With dia, "File" could be renamed to "dia". > containing: > New diagram > Open... > Recently opened > ... > --- > Preferences... > Plugins... > --- > Quit > > "Sheet&Objects" could be near the sheet list, (if not into), labeled as > "Customize..." Would make sense to have Sheets & Objects as Customize in the sheet menu. > "Diagram tree" could be moved into "Diagram / Diagram tree..." I wouldn't think so, the diagram tree is not just for one diagram, but shows all diagrams. If somebody would update it to show parenting/grouping and layers, it would be somewhat more useful. -Lars _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list FAQ at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/faq.html Main page at http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia
