Re: [Gaim-devel] Hi y'all & menu re-organization (?)

[Jason L. <jas...@ad...>]

 > I think this is a bad idea.  It will make my buddy list unnecessarily
 > wide.  Besides which, I bet most people don't even use the menus except
 > to open the preferences or set themselves away.

This is true. I was actually thinking about this when I was writing up 
my email, the "chat" menu is kind of pointless, it would only have two 
items in it *maybe*... so why not just get rid of the "Chat" menu 
entirely and simply have people start new IMs by double-clicking the 
person's name, or the IM and Chat buttons at the bottom of the window.

However, the Tools menu is *entirely* unweidly. I have a LOT of away 
messages, and it is really very difficult to get the one I want. I see 
you guys are talking about a window for that, but I think that if we 
re-organized the Tools menu into two menus ("Accounts" for away 
messages, signing on and off, account maintenance, etc, and a 
streamlined "Tools" menu for actual tools).

Just because people like to keep their window thin (I like to do that 
too) doesn't mean we have to shove everything into one giant menu that 
is impossible to navigate... there is a tradeoff between screen space 
and usability. Ultimately I think that having one extra menu that is 
MUCH easier to use trumps the extra two centimeters of screen space it 
takes up. Besides when you look at my window (I don't know about other 
people), perhaps only half of the space on the menubar is taken up. 
There is room for maybe two more menus there before I would have to make 
my window wider...

Jason