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.
I tended to agree with Bulia about it's placement under the File menu. I've always felt that all the application-level stuff should go there.
However, the fact that Edit>Preferences is a standard and appears to be becoming more of a standard trumps that. Particularly with the HIG specifying the position. I think that since we emphasize compliance to the HIG, and since it's listed in it, it seems fairly clear cut. If GIMP and Scribus will also be placing it under Edit, then I think that too is a compelling reason for placing it there.
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