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Autohidding unused options

2007-09-26
2012-11-13
  • Nobody/Anonymous

    Sometimes number of options in menu scares me. It would be nice to have auto hidding of rarely used options, just like in MS Office.

     
    • Chris Severance

      Chris Severance - 2007-10-01

      Another reason is that the Microsoft Office team wrote a custom menu system to support that so it's too much work until Microsoft provides it as a widget.

      http://discuss.fogcreek.com/joelonsoftware3/default.asp?cmd=show&ixPost=94078

       
    • pshute

      pshute - 2007-09-27

      I think the hiding of menu options leads to an inconsistent interface. I always turn it off in MS Office.  The result is that the menu items are always where I expect them to be.  I don't care if there are others there that I never use.

      I really can't see the problem.  How can your learn what the program can do if most of the menu items are hidden?  And once you've learnt it, I should think you'd be using the shortcuts all the time anyway.

      Hint:  see http://notepad-plus.sourceforge.net/uk/shortcuts.php for a list of all the shortcuts.

       
    • Nobody/Anonymous

      Ok, I see the point, It makes sense. My post was written after second use of the excellent program...