Re: [ jEdit-users ] Usability thingy (default button during save-question)

[Pete P. <pet...@cy...>]

Daniil V. Kolpakov wrote:
 > ? ????????? ?? ????? 21 ?????? 2004 16:53 Pete Prodoehl ???????(a):
 >
 >>>I have also a different approach on menus ... Did you never think of the
 >>>non sens File -> Quit menu ... In all application I develpot now, I 
avoid
 >>>this stupid thing. I always create a menu Application, name with the
 >>>project name. In JEdit case, the first menu will be name "JEdit" and the
 >>>second menu will be name "File".
 >>
 >>Well now it sounds like you're using Mac OS X, as the first menu item is
 >>always the name of the application. In jEdit's case, the jEdit menu
 >>contains:
 >>
 >>   About jEdit
 >>
 >>   Preferences...
 >>
 >>   Services ->
 >>
 >>   Hide jEdit
 >>   Hide Others
 >>   Show All
 >>
 >>   Quit jEdit
 >>
 >>
 >>>The application button contains always, quit, help, configuration menus.
 >>>This is more logical. In JEdit case, Utilitis menu seems to be the JEdit
 >>>menu.
 >>
 >>(Help is it's own menu, the farthest to the right...)
 >
 >
 > But this is more logical indeed (File->Exit now seems completely 
stuppid to
 > me)! And "About" is no much Help :)

Just to be clear, the menu in the menubar is titled 'jEdit' and the 
first item in the menu is labelled 'About jEdit' - which brings up the 
about jEdit dialog, showing the version, credits, etc... (At least in 
Mac OS X)

Pete