>> * why are the main menus in the drawing window only accessible with
>> Button-3? Whatever happened to putting menus in a menubar at the
>> top of the window? Putting everything into popup menus puts me in
>> mind of the horrible "access-everything-in-the-world" 73-level-deep
>> menu perpetrated by Windoze 95 and slavishly imitated by KDE and
>> Gnome (this is not a good thing).
>This idea is mainly stolen from Gimp, I think. I find it a useful place
to
>have the menus, as you don't have to move your mouse anywhere. But I
don't
>see any reason the menus couldn't go on top of the window, too (optionally
>-- I wouldn't want to waste space there).
I have worked with CAD for many years (right from the days when 640x480 res
was considered good), and personally, I like to 1) have the menu readily
accessible without having to move the mouse to the top of the window all
the time (over an 8 hr period of continuous CAD work this makes a big
difference), and 2) not having the drawing area taken up by toolbars and
menus etc. (I'm sure that anyone who has worked with Microstation will
agree that having a drawing window to... well.. draw in, is really great -
if only it had right button menus).
So, IMHO, I like the way GIMP and DIA work with the menus and hope that it
stays.
Dennis
