Nicu Buculei wrote:
bulia byak wrote:
On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 02:22:19 +0100, Jakub Steiner <jimmac@...659...> wrote:
Edit>Preferences is the proper thing to do if you want Gnome users to be familiar with Inkscape's interface,
It always struck me as something extremely odd that the global preferences of a program are in "Edit", just below Copy and Paste. What's the connection? I fail to see it. Yeah, I know, everyone does that. But it does not make it less stupid in my opinion. And in other programs, it's in Tools instead, which isn't any better. I always swear when I'm trying to find it on one of these menus while it's (of course!) in another.
i think we can learn form other projects. Mozilla people had a similar dilemma in Firefox: traditionally, Netscape and Mozilla Suite used Edit>Preferences (which is consistent with Gnome). in the desire to attract Windows people, they copied the Internet Explorer layout and moved to Tools>Options. the old user base and Linux people was outraged and a bad compromise was reached: now Firefox has two different menu layouts, one for Windows, with Tools>Options and another for Linux, with Edit>Preferences (don't know about Mac).
and as a personal opinion, i think it make sense, because you Edit the Preferences
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. Preferences are edited here rather than on a Settings menu, because:
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most applications' preferences windows are accessed via a single menu tem, and single-item menus offer poor usability
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most applications already contain a suitable Edit menu.
----------- http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-standard.html#menu-sta...
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. - Andreas Nilsson