File was renamed to Project for a few reasons, mainly for better context awareness and external non file based projects. No plans to change that as I think that works well.
On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 6:11 pm Bernhard Ströbl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Nathan, > > I think the original idea was to have something like a "File" menu, that > many applications have, too. Although it is not named "File". Anyway > IMHO it is a good idea, because many users get general and project's > settings mixed up and I would not favor renaming "Project" to "File" > either. > Going into detail: shouldn't "Project Properties..." go into the > "Project" menu then (and be renamed to "Properties")? > "Snapping Options..." are currently placed in settings, but are a > project's setting. Should go in the "Project" menu then, too. > > Bernhard > > Am 10.01.2017 um 04:11 schrieb Nathan Woodrow: > > Hey all, > > > > I would like to propose a new QGIS menu item that in the menu before the > > Project item. This menu item will contain all the stuff in the Settings > > Menu, Exit QGIS, and some of the stuff from the Help menu like About > > > > Motivation: A lot of application have a "Application" menu with > > application-wide settings, etc . I think this would make it clear that > > anything in this menu is related to the application itself and not the > > project. Having a Settings menu just floating in the middle of the menu > > bar seems strange to me now. > > > > Example > > > > Inline image 1 > > > > Thoughts? > > > > - Nathan > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Qgis-developer mailing list > > [email protected] > > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > > > > > > __________ Information from ESET Mail Security, version of virus signature > database 14743 (20170110) __________ > > The message was checked by ESET Mail Security. > http://www.eset.com > > > _______________________________________________ > Qgis-developer mailing list > [email protected] > List info: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer > Unsubscribe: http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/qgis-developer
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