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* add a mode-line menu to menu-bar?
@ 2006-11-04 19:04 Drew Adams
  2006-11-05 19:23 ` Richard Stallman
  2006-11-07  9:52 ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Drew Adams @ 2006-11-04 19:04 UTC (permalink / raw)


For consideration after the release -

There is now a lot of stuff going on in the mode-line. How about adding a
menu for all of that stuff to the menu-bar? This menu would not replace
mode-line clicking, but it would be an alternative, much as the Minibuf
menu-bar menu is an alternative.

Some of the mode-line functionality is not too obvious (different mouse
buttons on different parts of the mode-line). A menu for all of it could
also act as a learning aid (e.g. by showing the mode-line key sequences).

Because menu-bar space is limited, and this would be only a minor
convenience, it could be added to an existing menu, say Tools, as a submenu.
(Mode-Line functions are as much tools as Games are.)

I hear someone saying, "What next, a vertical-line menu? A fringe menu?"
Perhaps, if there is a fair amount of functionality involved for them. Why
not give a menu to each major UI component? Perhaps collect them all in the
same (sub)menu.

Just a thought.

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2006-11-04 19:04 add a mode-line menu to menu-bar? Drew Adams
2006-11-05 19:23 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-07  9:52 ` Slawomir Nowaczyk
2006-11-07 15:22   ` Drew Adams
2006-11-07 17:23     ` Masatake YAMATO
2006-11-07 17:44       ` Drew Adams
2006-11-08 16:58       ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-07 15:30   ` Chong Yidong

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