On 30 Sep 2006 at 14:34, Darcy James Argue wrote: > So yes, on Mac, the Program Options menu is found in the standard > place for all Preferences in OS X. On Windows, it's in the Edit menu > (which seems logical enough to me, but I'm not a Windows user).
It's not a Windows standard. "Preferences" is not the standard Windows terminology. Compare Mozilla to Firefox: on Mozilla, it's EDIT | PREFERENCES. On Firefox it's TOOLS | OPTIONS. I always assumed the EDIT | PREFERENCES came from Mac, but it may be a UNIX thing instead. I don't know where it should be because I don't know the new menu structure. It should be in the OS-standard location only if it makes sense for the application involved. For a single menu choice, I can't see program options belonging under EDIT on Windows. But I don't know where they belong. But the old situation was just fine because the Options and Tools menus were quite substantial in themselves and deserved to be at the top-level of the hierarchy. Once Options has been collapsed into a single Program Options dialog (or submenu choice), then it becomes sticky. On Windows, OPTIONS usually goes under TOOLS, but the Finale TOOLS menu means something completely different than the standard one in Windows, so it doesn't quite belong there. On the other hand, I've never seen a Windows program that doesn't use the term PREFERENCES for program options that put it on the EDIT menu. It's hard to figure out what's best for these kinds of choices, especially when one OS has a top-level PREFERENCES menu. Is that a standard Mac UI convention? I haven't used Mac enough to know. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
