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Subject: Re: PROPOSAL: Tidying up the K applications menu
From: Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date: 1999-11-16 12:17:50
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QT menus now automatically expand to 2 or more columns when the menu
height is larger than the display height.
"M. Neidorff" wrote:
>
> At 06:43 PM 11/15/1999 -0600, you wrote:
> > Additional thought: You mention that the menus should wrap to hold the
> >extra stuff, and while this would be an improvement, Win 95/NT 4 had this
> >and it was quite annoying (soon the menus would span the entire screen at
> >low-res). MS fixed this in Win 98 by replacing wrapping with arrows at the
> >top and bottom of large menus that let you scroll up and down.
>
> I agree with your basic proposal for understandable menus, but the
> scrolling menus are more broken than the original problem. IMO, we also
> need a clean, intuitive menu editor AND structure of sub-menus. Just
> having "Utilities" isn't enough, there needs to be a starting sub menu
> structure that developers also buy into.
>
> Mark
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