From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Karl Eichwalder Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 07:16:42 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200204302119.g3ULJAP06813@aztec.santafe.edu> <5xznzj30j0.fsf_-_@kfs2.cua.dk> Reply-To: Karl Eichwalder NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1020318675 17305 127.0.0.1 (2 May 2002 05:51:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 05:51:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Pavel@Janik.cz (Pavel =?iso-8859-1?q?Jan=EDk?=), rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 1739Up-0004Uy-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 07:51:15 +0200 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1739Zt-0000v8-00 for ; Thu, 02 May 2002 07:56:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1739Ue-0006Aq-00; Thu, 02 May 2002 01:51:04 -0400 Original-Received: from dns.franken.de ([193.175.24.33] helo=elvis.franken.de) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 1739UB-000694-00; Thu, 02 May 2002 01:50:35 -0400 Original-Received: from uucp by elvis.franken.de with local-rmail (Exim 3.22 #1) id 1739U4-0006cG-00; Thu, 02 May 2002 07:50:28 +0200 Original-Received: by tux.gnu.franken.de (Postfix, from userid 270) id B538DA43F2; Thu, 2 May 2002 07:16:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) In-Reply-To: <5xznzj30j0.fsf_-_@kfs2.cua.dk> (storm@cua.dk's message of "02 May 2002 01:34:43 +0200") Original-Lines: 17 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090006 (Oort Gnus v0.06) Emacs/21.2.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.9 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:3497 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:3497 storm@cua.dk (Kim F. Storm) writes: > I think that we should consider adding a few more sub-menues > to the Options menu Doing configuration through (sub)menus is quite cumbersome. State of the art is to offer some major setting through menu toggle line ("Enable Javascript" in galeon) and offer the rest through "Preferences..." dialog screens (a "notebook" or "tabs"). Often less is more :) -- ke@suse.de (work) / keichwa@gmx.net (home): | http://www.suse.de/~ke/ | ,__o Free Translation Project: | _-\_<, http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/contrib/po/HTML/ | (*)/'(*)