From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Options menu Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:18:36 +0100 Message-ID: <000c01c52cb0$35ece130$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <010e01c52c0d$ac93ede0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c52c6d$Blat.v2.4$713e68a0@zahav.net.il> <006901c52c9b$bcf6c890$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <01c52ca8$Blat.v2.4$66938940@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111256958 32765 80.91.229.2 (19 Mar 2005 18:29:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Mar 2005 18:29:18 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 19:29:18 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCihD-0001md-ON for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:29:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCixx-0005UY-MG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:46:29 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCixF-0005AR-5T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:45:45 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCix5-00055Z-G2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:45:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCix5-00052r-3R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:45:35 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.110] (helo=av3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DCiXu-0001Zu-VC; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 13:19:35 -0500 Original-Received: by av3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 4152538163; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:19:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.164]) by av3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F2A738098; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:19:34 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t2o58p73.telia.com [62.20.165.73]) by smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 2568D37E4D; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 19:19:33 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Eli Zaretskii" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:34783 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34783 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eli Zaretskii" > These are all either toggle-type options (we have most of them under > Options->Show/Hide) or text/font options (we have them under > Edit->Text Properties). To dedicate a whole top-level item to them > sounds unwise. Yes, I actually believe that is the case too. But keeping sort of similar grouping under Appearance in the Option menu would in my opinion be a good alternative. After all you do not change this things very often. A more important thing is probably that they are easy to find and that means logical structure, similarity and not too long menus (at least).