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

[Reinout v. S. <re...@cs...>]

On Wed, 21 Apr 2004 sg...@tc... wrote:

> 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".

I completely agree that an Application menu like you describe is
preferable, but I'm afraid it won't work very well when your app is the
only one taking this approach. It should be a requirement from the
underlying environment...

> The application button contains always, quit, help, configuration menus.

Quit is application-centric (like the Windows GUI). I prefer a
document-centric approach, where you have only documents that you can open
or close, but not quit.

regards,

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