On Sat, 2006-06-03 at 12:20 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
that one of them may be current, and that the commands in this menu operate on that current effect. All of these assumptions are true for layers, objects, and paths, but none of them is true for effects.
However I pointed out Inkscape (and many other programs) have: File not Files, Edit not Edits, Layer not Layers, View not Views. These are verbs not nouns/objects which is what underlies your assumptions.
It may not be the most reputable source but here is what I found in Wikipedia: "According to traditional human interface guidelines, menu names were always supposed to be verbs, such as "file" "edit" and so on[citation needed]. This has been largely ignored in subsequent UI developments." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menu_%28computing%29
Uhm, I don't think they're verbs.
File - Actions that effect the "file" or the current data that you're working with. I would argue that Nautilus more adequately takes care of filing, which would be more organization of multiple files.
Layer - Actions that effect the current "layer", as in the noun.
But, in the end, it doesn't really matter. I have no problem adding the shortcut, but again, I think that really messes up translators. Fuzzy doesn't work there when many languages (especially Asian ones) have to do funny things with the shortcuts.
--Ted