[Design] Propose menu changes

[Sheila Mooney]

I agree with Heikki that some of the menus are worth reviewing. In  
addition to the 3 bugs that Philippe mentioned, it's our intention to  
write up a menu spec for Beta which consolidates the changes that we  
have identified so far (and includes the context menus). I haven't  
yet talked to Mimi about whether or not she would like to rework any  
other menu items.

Sheila

On Aug 15, 2006, at 6:07 PM, Philippe Bossut wrote:

> 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
>
>
>
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