20 Feb
2005
20 Feb
'05
3:19 p.m.
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 11:52:38 +0100, Andreas Nilsson <nisses.mail@...563...> wrote:
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. Preferences are edited here rather than on a Settings menu, because:
Wow, I love this reasoning. It basically says, put it on Edit because Edit exists and because you can't put it in a menu of its own. Clever.
Now, putting it to File is of course not much better, but at least it is compliant with the idea that File has items that control the application as a whole (such as Exit), which seems more relevant for global preferences.