Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Sun, Feb 20, 2005 at 11:52:38AM +0100, Andreas Nilsson wrote:
This is what the HIG says about the edit menu:
The Edit menu contains items relating to editing both the document (clipboard handling, search and replace, and inserting special objects) and the user's preferences.
I think it would be natural to find preferences in the edit menu, just as my other apps. I might be wrong on this, but I think the ongoing gimp menu reorganisation puts edit in preferences too. Doing it the firefox way sound like a good solution.
It's also an excellent point that we have both Document and Application preferences (or properties), and having them in two separate menus could be confusing. However, I think other applications like OpenOffice, etc. also have this dichotomy; we could do well to follow their approach, since at least it'll be consistent across open source apps.
Bryce
I don't think it is that confusing actually, because they adress two different things. Preferences how the program behave and Page Setup (or whatever it's called) properties for the current document. Having document properties close to the printing stuff in the file menu is also nice, because often when you print stuff, the document is a bit to big, or has to small margins and stuff like that so having it close to eachother feels natural. - Andreas Nilsson