From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu Date: 02 May 2002 22:20:40 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <5x1ycucndz.fsf@kfs2.cua.dk> References: <200204302119.g3ULJAP06813@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xznzj30j0.fsf_-_@kfs2.cua.dk> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020367318 14329 127.0.0.1 (2 May 2002 19:21:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 19:21:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel =?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=EDk?=), rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 173M9O-0003iz-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 21:21:58 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 173MEj-0002P9-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 21:27:29 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 173M8X-00026Z-00; Thu, 02 May 2002 15:21:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.filanet.dk ([195.215.206.179]) by fencepost.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 173M7P-00020K-00; Thu, 02 May 2002 15:19:55 -0400 Original-Received: from kfs2.cua.dk.cua.dk (unknown [10.1.82.3]) by mail.filanet.dk (Postfix) with SMTP id 3DD617C035; Thu, 2 May 2002 19:19:53 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Karl Eichwalder In-Reply-To: Original-Lines: 26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3509 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3509 Karl Eichwalder writes: > storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > > > I think that we should consider adding a few more sub-menues > > to the Options menu > > Doing configuration through (sub)menus is quite cumbersome. Yes, but it allows us to easily demonstrate the available features without adding the complexity of a large "Preferences" buffer with lots of buttons... > State of > the art is to offer some major setting through menu toggle line ("Enable > Javascript" in galeon) and offer the rest through "Preferences..." > dialog screens (a "notebook" or "tabs"). > > Often less is more :) > But today we have very few easily accessible options -- and to find the rest is pretty difficult for the novice users. -- Kim F. Storm http://www.cua.dk