From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: tgbugs@gmail.com, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: RE: Discoverability (was: Changes for 28)
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2020 11:30:46 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <945622ca-6837-4fee-adc3-572cb84a6d83@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <<83o8mdimxw.fsf@gnu.org>>
> > (And other Edit submenus, such as Go To and
> > Bookmarks could reasonably be moved to File;
> > they're not particularly about editing.)
>
> They are in Edit because other applications put them (or similar
> stuff) under Edit.
>
> The Emacs menu items and their arrangement are not random, they were
> well thought of and discussed at length. There's usually a good
> reason behind every choice there.
I didn't assume randomness. And there are countervailing
good reasons to move them from Edit (e.g. to File).
Most things in Emacs UI have been "well thought out and
discussed at length". There's still room for improvement.
next parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-10 18:30 UTC|newest]
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2020-09-10 18:30 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2020-09-10 18:44 ` Discoverability (was: Changes for 28) Eli Zaretskii
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2020-09-10 19:05 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-10 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-08 23:17 Tom Gillespie
2020-09-09 2:51 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-09 4:36 ` Tom Gillespie
2020-09-11 4:07 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-09 8:07 ` tomas
2020-09-10 2:34 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-10 2:35 ` Richard Stallman
2020-09-10 16:53 ` Drew Adams
2020-09-10 17:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
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