unofficial mirror of emacs-devel@gnu.org 
 help / color / mirror / code / Atom feed
From: "Mathias Dahl" <mathias.dahl@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Tumme menu in Dired, what to do about it?
Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 13:32:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7dbe73ed0605250432k78d0d9dbm3fda0fcc854d6d15@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Fj6sf-0005c9-7u@fencepost.gnu.org>

> Please get rid of "to marked files" or "from marked files"
> on all the menu items.  Those words are wasteful.

Done.

> However, every menu item that reads more input (such as confirmation,
> which all Dired commands that operate on marked files ask for)
> should have "..." at the end.

Done.

> Every word in menu item name should be capitalized.  Always.

Even words like "in", "of" and "at"? I noticed some other menu items
where those words were not capitalized, and there are also "normal"
words that are not capitalized.

> I suggest replacing "Tag" with "Image Tag".  Without that,
> it is not clear what this is about.

Done.

> +     '(menu-item "Find and mark files with a certain tag"
>
> That is painfully long.  Use "Mark Images From Tags".

I changed it to Mark From Image Tags.

> That is painfully long.  Use "Display Image Externally".

Done.

> Meanwhile, please give each menu item a help-echo string which
> explains better.  We decided that we do want them, except for items
> that lead to submenus.

Oh? Then I misunderstood the outcome of that discussion. I will add
help-echo strings.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-05-25 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-13  0:42 Tumme menu in Dired, what to do about it? Mathias Dahl
2006-02-13 17:59 ` Juri Linkov
2006-02-13 20:24   ` Mathias Dahl
2006-02-14  0:40   ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-13 20:04 ` Richard M. Stallman
2006-02-13 20:25   ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-24 18:54   ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-24 21:45     ` Nick Roberts
2006-05-24 22:07       ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-25  0:52     ` Drew Adams
2006-05-25 11:40       ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-25  3:51     ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-25  8:06       ` Nick Roberts
2006-05-25  8:11         ` Nick Roberts
2006-05-25 11:57         ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-25 12:06           ` David Kastrup
2006-05-25 13:20             ` Nick Roberts
2006-05-25 13:23               ` David Kastrup
2006-05-25 13:51                 ` Nick Roberts
2006-05-25 13:58                   ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-25 13:59                   ` David Kastrup
2006-05-26  2:21             ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 10:33               ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-27  3:36                 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 22:24               ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-26 22:35               ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-25 13:13           ` Nick Roberts
2006-05-26  2:22             ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 10:40               ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-27  3:36                 ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-25 11:32       ` Mathias Dahl [this message]
2006-05-26  2:21         ` Richard Stallman
2006-05-26 23:29           ` Mathias Dahl
2006-05-27 23:32             ` Richard Stallman

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

  List information: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=7dbe73ed0605250432k78d0d9dbm3fda0fcc854d6d15@mail.gmail.com \
    --to=mathias.dahl@gmail.com \
    --cc=emacs-devel@gnu.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
Code repositories for project(s) associated with this public inbox

	https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git

This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).