> The location of the preferences changed some time ago. The old
location was
> a relic of usability of the past. Actual place corresponds to custom
> usability. See openoffice or KDE, Gnome applications.
The more i read this word, "usability", the more I suspect it is some
sort of universal justification... Is a menu more usable when one have
to search it everywhere?
I have looked at all the apps, and have not seen a real consensus on the
preferences place. In OpenOffice, as you told, it's in Tools. But I
confess I hardly use it, as I really prefer using Lyx, and when I can't,
turn to Abiword (which, by the way, has Edit->Preferences) or gnumeric
(doesn't really have a centralized preferences place), those being...
Gnome apps. KDE apps, as far as I can't see, don't use Tools->
Preferences, but top level "Settings". Which is anyway better than Tolls
anyway (well, I think Tools->Prefs/Options is the less obvious and
intuitive location one could have found). Firefox/Thunderbird use
Edit->Prefs, as do audacity.
Inkscape puts it in File (this one seems strange when compared to the
others).
I also found that netbeans use Tools->Options.
Anyway it seems you did this on purpose, so I don't think it's safe to
try and have it corrected, but would it be possible to have it configurable?
Regards,
Mickaël
