[Dev] 0.5 Proposal for Menu Cleanup

[John Anderson]

Morgen Sagen wrote:

> These changes all look fine, especially promoting the 'Accounts...' 
> menu item up a level.  I suggest that in addition to Test -> Generate 
> Data we add a Test -> Generate Lots of Data menu item which creates, 
> say, 1000 items of various kinds.  Even 1000 items isn't all that 
> much, but we should probably get in the habit of testing Chandler 
> using a larger set of content items.
>
> I would also like to add a couple menu items: one allowing the user to 
> subscribe to a remote iCalendar (.ics) file such as those published by 
> Apple iCal, and another to publish a collection of events to a .ics 
> file on a webdav server (so that iCal can subscribe to it).  These two 
> features are doable using the Test menu today, but I would like to 
> promote them as official Chandler features in 0.5.
>
> Someone suggested that since we can now fetch from multiple IMAP 
> accounts at once, the File -> Sync -> Mail menu could be expanded to 
> show all IMAP accounts and allow the user to sync them individually.  
> Ditto for File -> Sync -> Shares.  I'm not sure how hard it is to 
> dynamically add/remove menu items based on the result of a query, though.

This is a great idea, however, it doesn't fall out naturally today, so 
I'm not sure it's worth doing for 9.5, but it seems like a good idea for 
0.6.

John

>
> ~morgen
>
> On Feb 10, 2005, at 10:31 PM, Sheila Mooney wrote:
>
>> All,
>>
>> Mimi, John, Aparna and I met to discuss cleaning up some of the 
>> unused and/or disabled menu items in Chandler. Please note, that this 
>> is simply a clean-up proposal for 0.5. We realize some of this 
>> functionality will be fixed or working in 0.6 and beyond. John 
>> indicated that it was very easy to add these back in when they are 
>> necessary.
>>
>> As far as the test menu is concerned, I know that many of you use 
>> some of the test menu items regularly. John and Aparna did a first 
>> pass on what we thought was still being used, so let us know if there 
>> is something we have removed incorrectly.
>>
>> Please reply/comment by end of day Monday.
>>
>> Current Proposal:
>>
>> File Menu
>> * remove New Tab and Close Tab
>> * remove New Window and Close Window
>> * remove Preferences -> Profile and Sync (we could just have the 
>> Accounts under the File Menu)
>>
>> Edit Menu
>> * change Delete to Remove
>>
>> View Menu
>> * remove Columns
>> * remove Sort By
>> * remove Ad-hoc Collections items
>> * remove all items after (View Toolbar, View Sidebar, View Status 
>> Bar) items (check if Katie wants to keep Week View and Day View)
>>
>> Test menu:
>> * Change Generate Content Items to Generate Data (to include 
>> Collections)
>> * Remove Generate Notes, Generate Calendar items, Generate Contacts
>> * Put these under a Share sub menu->Subscribe to collection, Share 
>> collection 'All', Sync collection 'All', Share tool
>> * Remove Get Mail
>> * Remove Log View changes
>> * Remove Log Repo History
>> * Club Repository things together in the test menu(Check Repository, 
>> Commit Repository)
>> * Remove some of the views from Add  Additional Views in the test 
>> menu (remove some of the stuff in Add views like Mixed view, 
>> note-kind view, contact-kind, task-kind, mail-kind etc)
>>
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