From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Customize buttons that change user's customfileshouldaskforconfirmation Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:25:20 +0100 Message-ID: <026d01c513f8$afd77f80$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 1108539708 20881 80.91.229.2 (16 Feb 2005 07:41:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:41:48 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 16 08:41:48 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1Jod-00007u-UW for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:41:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1K4X-0007Z1-Dw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:58:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1Jzo-00072k-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:53:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1D1JzV-0006vO-JL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:53:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1D1JzU-0006qQ-U4 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:52:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.107] (helo=av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1D1JYr-00008w-JN; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:25:25 -0500 Original-Received: by av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id D642537E6A; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:25:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.182]) by av9-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C52F437E42; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:25:24 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t3o58p168.telia.com [195.252.56.168]) by smtp2-2-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C370C37E4B; Wed, 16 Feb 2005 08:25:23 +0100 (CET) Original-To: "Drew Adams" , , "Emacs Devel" 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:33526 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:33526 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Drew Adams" > Why not let the menu-bar menu have entries for working with the "current > option". The "current option" could be that where the point is. (I > implemented this kind of functionality in my proposal long ago for a > redressed Custom GUI.) > > That's possible, but I don't think it's desirable. > > That is not standard in any UI I'm familiar with. A context-sensitive menu > is usually associated with a mouse button, because you are generally using > the mouse to manipulate things associated with that context. This is the > practice nearly everywhere in MS Windows, for instance. I do not think it is that clear. Options dialogs in MS Windows do not have a menu at all. It is also quite common that menus operate on the current item (for example in a mail program). A problem is of course that it must be clear what item the menus operates on. In case of the Custom GUI what I have done is to let the menus for the current item include the name of the item.