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: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:56:02 +0100 Message-ID: <010e01c52c0d$ac93ede0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: 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 1111186853 5135 80.91.229.2 (18 Mar 2005 23:00:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:00:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 19 00:00:52 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCQSQ-0008FK-Bb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Mar 2005 00:00:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCQj0-00023G-40 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:17:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCQhL-0001ZZ-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:16:09 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DCQh2-0001Pn-Fi for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:15:50 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DCQh1-0001Oh-Vk for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:15:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.111] (helo=av5-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DCQNv-0006Bm-1L; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 17:56:03 -0500 Original-Received: by av5-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 52C5B3809F; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:56:02 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.164]) by av5-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4420038087; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:56:02 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t1o58p1.telia.com [62.20.164.1]) by smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 4B4E637E42; Fri, 18 Mar 2005 23:56:01 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "David Kastrup" 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:34752 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:34752 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Kastrup" > Looks like a candidate for "Appearance". Appearance could be > structured into overall appearance (frame stuff, cursor, menubar, > toolbar, speedbar) and detailed appearance (dirnames in buffers, file > name shadow, syntax highlighting). Without wanting to comment too much on this now I would like to say I like the idea of an "Appearance" submenu. I have many times thought of suggesting a "View" top menu which would contain the same things. Most applications I use on w32 have a "View" top menu. I do not know about GNOME hear, whether it proposes something like this or not. My gut feeling is however that most w32 users would expect a "View" top menu. (According to user surveys the order and content of the top menu seems to be important. It should be coherent across applications if possible.) My gut also tells me it is unlikely that we will have a "View" top menu now. However an "Appearance" sub menu with the same content will serve part of the same purpose and will propably IMO feel logical for most users. I believe that also the appropriate toggle things like "Blinking cursor" should go into this submenu.