Hi,

around 20 days ago the order of menu items in the Pharo world menu were munged 
up in the standard Pharo 8
image for whatever reasons. "Safe" was on first position and not grouped with 
other "Save ..." items anymore as it was
in the past. This was noted by Alexandre Bergel and others on Discord.

I fixed the order in the following PULL REQUEST 
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/3529
with the menu ending up looking like this:

  !--------------------
  ! SETTINGS
  !--------------------
  ! SAVE
  ! SAVE AS
  ! SAVE AND QUIT
  !--------------------
  ! QUIT
  !--------------------

having added by intention an additional divider between
 - the more safe options to store the image (secure)
 - the unsafe quit where one can loose changes in the image (insecure if you 
just quit)

I know that "SAVE AND QUIT" and "QUIT" also might belong somehow together as 
both exit the image
- but  the diver should separate the more secure options from the more insecure 
options.


Now today the divider was removed again using 
https://github.com/pharo-project/pharo/pull/3738
from Cyril Ferlicot mentioning it as "unwanted" - so now the menu looks like 
this:

  !--------------------
  ! SETTINGS
  !--------------------
  ! SAVE
  ! SAVE AS
  ! SAVE AND QUIT
  ! QUIT
  !--------------------

as it was back in Pharo 7.

As I'm someone who is mousing around very quickly in the past it often happened 
to me that while I wanted to
really "SAVE AND QUIT" I hit accidentally the "QUIT" button directly below - 
leaving me in a state where I had
to recover or reapplying changes afterwards.

So using the additonal divider between the three "safe my data" options and the 
"just leave" was intentional and to
me makes some sense: from the point of view of grouping, visually and from 
clicking behavior.

I guess Cyril Ferlicot wanted to restore how it looked in Pharo 7 or had other 
reasons why he prefers the menu to
look like in the second picture.

I know it is not a big thing - but nonetheless: It would be good if others 
could write which option

  a) WITH DIVIDER (as in first picture to separate safe from unsafe options) or
  b) WITHOUT DIVIDER (as in second picture to stay like it was back in Pharo 7)

they really prefer so we can decide on a community / voters base.

Thx and sorry for the ASCII art
T.


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