On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 10:14:38PM -0700, Ted Gould wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:29 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote:
I'd very much like for the Effects menu to be renamed to Effect (we have the are verbs, we have File, not Files, Layer, not Layers, etc) https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=1253273&group_id=93... (crappy patch included, might work, might have bitrotted) and also at the same time it would be good to get menu mnemonic for Effe_ct https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=604306&aid=1313582...
I think the menus are serving different purposes though. Menus like "Layer" are operations that you perform on a layer. The effects menu serves as more of a collection of things that you can do to the document. "Change Document" menu doesn't sound very good :)
Hmm, Alan is sounding more convincing on this. All the other items are singular.
It can wait but the layout of the user interface in the scripts I looked at are quite busy and complicated. The widgets are not lined up either which doesn't help readability (sticking them into a table and using colspan is a fairly easy way to tidy this up when designing in Glade).
Well, the real problem here is that they're automatically generated. It's unlikely that anything autogenerated will ever look good. In this case each parameter is independent to maintain good OO practice, so any change would be too much at this point in the release process.
Agreed. But maybe for 0.45 they could be put into a table to make them a bit more orderly.
For this release, even having a UI for many of these will be a huge step forward. :-)
It isn't clear which scripts will pop a dialog and which dont (I'll have to recheck the *HIG but) some of them should probably have ... ellipsis after the menu lable.
That makes sense to me, but I don't think something this trivial is worth breaking the hard freeze.
Plus, it might risk invalidating some strings and throwing off the translators.
However, this might be worth fixing for 0.44.1. Alan, can you check that there's a bug in on this one?
Bryce