On 05/3/11 11:19, Juha Manninen wrote:
I have refactored Lazarus main menu
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More ideas?
A further consideration is how to make locating seldom-used functionality accessible easily via the present menu system, without resorting to space-wasting GUI elements such as a Ribbon.
Edit, Search and Run all have 20 or more items, of which several have subitems.
I often find myself searching for functionality I know is there somewhere ... and miss it several times in the long lists.
Is there scope for arranging some items alphabetically, or at least having a fundamental rethink about the order and design of the menus and their subitem lists as they have grown to the present state, so that a menu design can be refined and agreed that will hold for a considerable period up to and beyond a 1.0 release, and be a well-thought-through standard that does not keep changing (familiarity with a stable and logically arranged menu structure saves a lot of frustration), even as new functionality is added.
For instance the Search menu has four separator lines (supposedly grouping related functionality together?) Yet 'Goto line' is at the top of the second section, and 'Goto include directive' is in the middle of the fourth section. And if you add the jumptoimplementation package its menu item gets tagged on at the end; and none of the four separated sections has items that are ordered alphabetically (at least in the English IDE).
I'm not wanting to complain, rather to raise the question if now is not a good time to take stock of the erratic menu growth and changes over the past few years, and as Juha suggests, refactor it constructively.
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