From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
Cc: xah@xahlee.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Fiddling with the menus
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 06:07:21 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834osgl63a.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tz0gwpls.fsf@mail.jurta.org>
> From: Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org>
> Cc: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>, xah@xahlee.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:14:23 +0300
>
> It is also important to remove some keywords. You just said:
>
> In a good UI, each feature should be put under a group whose name
> gives a hint that the feature could be reasonably looked up in that
> group. Having group names such as "Advanced" or "More options", that
> have no mnemonic value, is abusing the menus, which are supposed to
> make the job of finding a feature _easier_, not harder.
>
> Exactly the same can be said about keywords. There are keywords that
> have no mnemonic value like "convenience", "extensions", "tools".
> They should be removed with re-indexing existing packages.
Yes, I agree.
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Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-08-05 3:22 bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23! xah lee
2009-08-06 2:15 ` Richard Stallman
2009-08-08 16:11 ` Xah Lee
2009-08-09 3:36 ` Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!) Stefan Monnier
2009-08-09 3:53 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 5:13 ` Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs Stefan Monnier
2009-08-09 17:20 ` Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!) Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 17:56 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:10 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 18:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 18:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:54 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 19:07 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 20:36 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 23:00 ` Fiddling with the menus Jason Rumney
2009-08-09 23:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 23:46 ` Jason Rumney
2009-08-10 1:51 ` Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!) Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-08-10 3:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-10 3:26 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-10 2:27 ` Fiddling with the menus Stefan Monnier
2009-08-10 2:32 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 5:05 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-09 9:51 ` CHENG Gao
2009-08-09 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:06 ` CHENG Gao
2009-08-09 18:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:24 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 18:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:59 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 22:54 ` Jason Rumney
2009-08-10 1:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-09 17:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 23:14 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-10 2:32 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-10 3:07 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2009-08-11 5:06 ` Dan Nicolaescu
2009-08-11 13:03 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-09 12:37 ` Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!) Florian Beck
2009-08-09 17:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 18:05 ` Fiddling with the menus Richard Riley
2009-08-09 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-10 2:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-10 3:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-09 23:09 ` Juri Linkov
2009-08-09 23:29 ` Lennart Borgman
2009-08-10 0:10 ` Drew Adams
2009-08-10 2:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-08-09 20:29 ` bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23! Richard Stallman
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