Re: [ jEdit-users ] Opening up jEdit development

[Michael C. <chi...@mi...>]

Reinout van Schouwen wrote:
> 2005/7/24, Daniel Wunsch <the...@gm...>:
> 
> 
>>most users simple don't care how a function is implemented -
>>they just know it's a text editing function and expect to find
>>a single menu for all of them, not 3 or more.
>>
>>a solution could be to put Actions regardless of their
>>implementation into some standard categories and then
>>build the menus by category.
> 
> 
> I've been advocating a similar solution for ages :) Currently the
> location of a plugin in the Plugins menu will change based on which
> plugins are installed -completely counter-intuitive.
> 
> Plugins that fit in one of the standard menus should go there, and
> ones that don't should be sorted by category instead of
> alphabetically.
> 
> regards,

Well at least plugins are in the Plugins menu.  If they were scattered all over 
different menus, that could get confusing to me.  I'm afraid it would be hard to 
remember what's a plugin and what's not.  When you use a different jEdit install 
on a different computer, some stuff you thought was builtin turns out not to be, 
and which plugin was that again??

Personally, I would rather have them collected into one menu, and the order of 
menu items in the menu isn't that big a deal to me.  I haven't had any problems 
finding what I need.  A conceptual separation between "core" and "plugin", which 
is straightforwardly reflected in the GUI, seems very natural to me.  But maybe 
I just use unusually few plugins (~ 6 or 7)...

Just my 2c.

Andy