[Design] Propose menu changes

[Philippe Bossut]

Hi,

Heikki Toivonen wrote:
> I think our menus are getting cluttered. I have a couple of suggestions
> to improve the situation:
>
> 1. Get rid of the View Toolbar, View Sidebar, View Statusbar entries in
> the View menu. Does anyone actually need them? If somebody really needs
> them, we could make an optional parcel that adds those menu items back.
>   
IMHO, the View menu is OK and even if I'm not using those options, 
suppressing them won't solve the real menu clutter issue, namely, the 
Collection and Test menu (your second point).
> 2. Create a default location for extension parcels to add their menu
> items. Mozilla has the Tools menu, under which many Mozilla addons add
> their stuff. I think we could also use a Tools menu, and move the
> amazon, evdb and flickr menus there. In the future it could also house
> the menu entry to launch the extension manager (think Firefox again). I
> also think some of the menu entries in the Test menu could be moved
> under tools menu.
>   
+1 in providing a little bit more "by default" structure so that 3rd 
party parcel devs have a good place to put their ware. A Tools menu 
seems to be a good idea.
-1 though to restricting 3rd party devs to use this menu (not that you 
said this explicitly but it's what I read between the lines...). 
Remember that everything is a parcel in Chandler and everything is (and 
should be) open to extension. Hell, even our own stuff are parcels!

Note also that there are 3 bugs (targeted alpha4 BTW...) that do target 
this issue specifically:
- 4617    separate parcel for test menu items
- 5173    Put 3rd party parcels into a hierarchical menu
- 5236    Consolidate Collection menu

Cheers,
- Philippe