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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Menus organisation [Was: KWord Table Handling Is Strange]
From:       Irwin <emerald-arcana () rogers ! com>
Date:       2002-05-30 3:09:06
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On May 28, 2002 12:18 pm, Simon Edwards wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > 1) Table menu doesn't allow you to create a table.  (You have to go to
> > "Insert" instead).
>
> Actually this seems to be a general problem when you mix the standard menus
> (File, Edit, View, Settings) with menus about an given 'object' in the
> application (Table, Folder, Message). Things get kind of split between the
> object menus and the standard menus, which can be quite annoying. (I look
> for Search in the Folder menu in Kmail because I want to look inside the
> current _folder_).

I think it's the horrid combination of verbs and nouns.  I can't believe that 
there was no specified rule about what menus should be called (for example, 
saying that all menus should be named after nouns).

So if we think, "Insert Table", we don't know if we should look under "Insert" 
or "Table".


- -- 
- -- Irwin 
(Arcana)
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