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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Menu structure proposal (Was: Re: Some brainstorming)
From:       Daniel Borgmann <spark () blue4you ! de>
Date:       2001-09-09 18:35:52
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On Sunday 09 September 2001 19:06, Alistair Davidson wrote:
> Maybe people could post their ideas for menu headings and questions, so
> it isn't too narrowly focussed on my ideas (avoiding bias is necessary
> to be scientific)

Well... :)
Because I would like to see object menus, I would show the following for 
Konqueror (I think it's not even neccessary to provide screenshots in this 
case):

Application - Document - Bookmarks - Tools - Settings - Help

Questions:

1) What kind of items would you expect into the "Application" menu?
2) What kind of items would you expect into the "Document" menu?
3-6) same for bookmarks to help.

7) Where would you look for the following actions. 
Think if you would look there because you are used to it, or because it makes 
sense.  If the place where you would expect by logical thinking differes from 
the place where you would expect it by experience, please provide both as 
answer.

- "Quit the program"
- "Copy the selected text to clipboard"
- "Show the sidebar"
- "Reload the current document" (well, that's probably too simple ;))

Hmm... while writing this questions, I see that most answers answer them self.
For example: "Quit the application". "Reload the current document", etc.
That's why I think, those object menus would REALLY make sense. You 
immidiatly know where to look for something.
As always, there are some exceptions. I just figured, that the "Edit" options 
can't be just put into "Document", cause you could also copy selected text in 
the location bar, right? So this could also be in interface...
So "Edit" is not that bad as a common menu.  Maybe just a different name, 
like "Selected Text" or "Selected Content".

Hmm... sorry, I got carried away again. :)

Spark
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