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Re: [Texmacs-dev] Top level menus
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Stéphane Payrard |
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Re: [Texmacs-dev] Top level menus |
Date: |
Sun, 28 Jul 2002 03:43:21 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
On Sun, Jul 28, 2002 at 12:19:21AM +0200, Joris van der Hoeven wrote:
>
> I continued thinking about how the reduce the number
> of top level menus. Here are some thoughts.
I am not against the multiplication of the number of top level
menus if they contribute to diminish the depth of them.
>
> 1. Top level menus should not be dimmed but disappear
> when they are non relevant. This exception seems
> quite essential because of the wide variety of things
> which are potentially possible with TeXmacs.
Probably, for dynamic items we don't want to dim, a rule of thumb is
to segragate them to the end of a menu or a bar.
So the first bar should be:
| static items | dynamic items | help |
^
a -------- help at the very right
BTW: in Qt applis. it seems that if a bar does not fit because
the window is not large enoguh, it is folded.
>
> 2. We might regroup the actual Text and Paragraph menus
> in one Format menu with entries Font, Color, Language and Paragraph.
> Changes of format are *always* local changes in environment variables.
> Consequently, the Document menu continues to exist,
> because it deals with global settings for the document.
>
> 3. We may rename Structure simply as Text,
> because it concerns markup for text mode.
> When switching to math mode, it naturally becomes Mathematics.
> (I finally like the idea of a Mathematics menu;
> each specific class of markup, like Mathematics, Physics,
> Table, Tree, Graphics, etc. should have its own top level menu.)
>
> 4. "View Go Tools Settings" is too much.
> At least one of this menus should be incorporated elsewhere.
> * Maybe Settings in Tools or Edit; we will have a special widget
> later for settings or dedicated browsable pages.
> * Maybe embed Go into the File menu.
> Nevertheless, two of the menus (at least) should stay.
>
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