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From: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: Lennart Borgman <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>,
	eliz@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Options menu
Date: Sun, 20 Mar 2005 20:45:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <umzsyvyg2.fsf@jasonrumney.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <x5acoycmhx.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (David Kastrup's message of "Sun, 20 Mar 2005 17:26:02 +0100")

David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:

> Since I have stared now at the current menus for 21.4 and 22.x for
> longer than probably ever previously, I would like to mention one
> other thing that has struck me as standing out negatively, and this
> _would_ be a change with regard to 21.4: I'd swap the order of the
> "Save Options" and "Customize Emacs" menu entries to make "Save
> Options" be the last entry in the menu: that's where people look for
> it.

I think the reason to put it above "Customize Emacs" is to avoid
misleading users into thinking that it will save changes made inside
customize.

> I am also not happy about the "Customize Emacs" menu name: it implies
> that selecting options in the Options menu would be different from
> customizing Emacs.  I'd prefer to have this menu called "All Options"

This has the same potential for misleading users about the scope of
"Save Options".

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-20 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-18  8:54 Options menu Kim F. Storm
2005-03-18 10:31 ` David Kastrup
2005-03-18 12:57   ` Kim F. Storm
2005-03-18 14:58   ` Chong Yidong
2005-03-18 22:56   ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-19 10:20     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-19 11:24       ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 15:32         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-19 15:55           ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 15:51       ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-19 16:51         ` David Kastrup
2005-03-19 17:22         ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-19 18:18           ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-20 12:59         ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-20 16:26           ` David Kastrup
2005-03-20 16:58             ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-20 17:31               ` David Kastrup
2005-03-20 17:43                 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-20 18:06                   ` David Kastrup
2005-03-21  1:19                   ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-21  1:19                 ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-20 19:31             ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-20 20:49               ` David Kastrup
2005-03-20 20:45             ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2005-03-20 21:40               ` David Kastrup
2005-03-20 22:27               ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-20 23:10                 ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-21  0:02                   ` David Kastrup
2005-03-21  1:26                     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-22  3:34                       ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-21  1:41                     ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-21  6:12                     ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-21 23:28                       ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-21 23:35                         ` David Kastrup
2005-03-21 23:50                           ` Luc Teirlinck
2005-03-22  0:15                             ` David Kastrup
2005-03-22  6:20                               ` Lennart Borgman
2005-03-22 20:44                           ` Richard Stallman
2005-03-22 22:37                             ` David Kastrup
2005-03-20 22:12             ` Miles Bader
2005-03-18 15:48 ` Drew Adams
2005-03-18 20:30   ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-18 20:53     ` Drew Adams
2005-03-19 10:13       ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-03-19  3:08 ` Richard Stallman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-23  8:45 Baloff
2005-08-23  8:47 ` Sébastien Kirche
2005-08-24 16:58   ` Baloff
2005-08-25  0:40     ` Sean Sieger

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