On 12-02-22 04:48 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
On 23 February 2012 01:13, Colomban Wendling<[email protected]> wrote:
Le 21/02/2012 05:15, Lex Trotman a écrit :
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2. don't spread menu items through the Geany menus, users don't know
where to look and if several plugins add things to the same place the
menu may become unworkable. You don't know what other plugins the
user will enable at the same time.
I'm not sure about this one either, though I understand that too many
items everywhere may become a problem.
But if the plugin provides a feature like, say, uniqueness (ref. thread
in the general ml), the menu would better fit in edit->format or
something; and e.g. GeanyGenDoc places an item in "editor context
menu"->insert.
Well, its only the plugin developers idea of where it "belongs",
personally I would not want uniqueness in format. Also if we change
the Geany menu all the plugins have to scramble to fix themselves.
We could use GtkUIManager more, it's precisely what it's used for (ex.
in Gedit), AFAIK.
IMO this makes the UI better than fulfilling the tools menu with various
stuff, since it's the "appropriate place" for such an item.
Just try getting agreement on "appropriate", its a bikeshed. Unless
the plugin has a preference to choose tools or somewhere else.
That's what HIGs are for, and common sense even :)
I understand that if 10k plugins adds items in various menus it'd start
to be annoying, but OTOH, is a tool menu with 10k items really better?
Well, at least its isolated and the usability of the rest of Geany
isn't impacted.
I don't think that there is a clear cut solution, but IMHO on balance
it is better to keep the mess constrained to one place.
IMO, if it's a simple plugin and provides a generic editor feature Geany
is missing, it would be fine to put it in the corresponding menu (ex.
Edit->Format->Remove Duplicate Lines), but if it's a big plugin with
lots of menu items, even if they fit better in the regular menus, they
should still be put in a submenu inside the Tools menu. That's my
opinion anyway.
Cheers,
Matthew Brush
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