On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 12:29:22AM +0200, Mickaël Leduque wrote: > > 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?
I don't think there was consensus on having it in Options. So you might as well try and re-open that debate. Andre'
