On Monday, December 13, 2010, Dan Meltzer wrote: > If common actions were all handled in this way, then it might > actually lead to more consistancy,
consistency with what? certainly not with the menus, where we will now have items that behave differently. (as a side note: this will break with dbusmenu; so it can't find its way easily into the system tray icon menus, for instance) > and ease of access. i still have reservations about this given the introduction of a second axis of freedom within the menu. > Actions are > not particuallarly consistant across applications, and so it becomes > necessary to read the entire list to find the item you are looking > for. If cut/copy/paste were always found as icons at the top of the > menu in applications that support them, it would probably lead to > accessing them quicker. if they were always in the same place in the menu, regardless of presentation, it would help. the questions that remain would be: * are they important enough to always be at the top of the menu in all applications? if not, which applications / use cases does it make sense to do so? * what is the actual amount of time / effort spent locating these items in menus as it stands now? > Of course, I'm not sure how many people would > do this vs. the shortcuts that are also well known, but if this was > done for other actions as well, perhaps it would be beneficial? The putting the most common actions at the top of the menu is useful regardless of layout. > icons should probably always be at the top of the menu, to add that > consistancy, and I'm not sure if there are enough actions out there to > merit the additional code path, but I think that this might actually > be able to develop into something unique and useful. i'm happy to change my mind in the presence of compelling demonstrations :) -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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