[haiku-development] Re: [Haiku-commits] r21394 - in haiku/trunk: headers/os/interface src/kits/interface


On 14 Jun 2007, at 16:54, Ryan Leavengood wrote:


On 6/14/07, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:


In StyledEdit as well...
It merges the "Open" item and the "Open Recent" submenu you can find
for ex in Gobe.


ShowImage also has the merged Open menu. What is funny is on R5 at
least opening the submenu will crash ShowImage (for some reason I
haven't yet figured out), so I tend to use the shortcut to open images
;)

<snip>



So I say we keep this, and just improve the menu drawing a bit to have
more space between the display of the shortcut and the submenu arrow.

Ryan
I'm not really against the whole clickable-sub-menu-parent idea (I actually copied it in my Windows version of Process Controller); I just think that having a shortcut to it is possibly a bit excessive and might be considered poor UI coding rather than anything else. I would also point out that I used both OS X and the AmigaOS purely as examples of 'more user-oriented" operating systems and not because I want BeOS to look or act like them.
As for the Open... anomaly, I like Stephan's proposed alternative or even: 

Open --> File...
               ~~~~~~~~~~~
               <recent>
                        :
                       :

Apologies if that doesn't format well in your email client!
I guess a further compromise would be - as someone already suggested - to allow submenu parents to have a shortcut but to simply not render the text in the menu. Means the user won't know about the shortcut unless they read the manual of course... 

Chris

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