[haiku-development] Re: Mail and E-mail preferences

  • From: Denis Washington <dwashington@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:53:29 +0100

On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 18:41 +0100, Gabriele Biffi wrote:
> If I can say my vision, Edit->Preferences just _sounds_ good, but it's 
> not a good choice; the Edit menu should be used to edit the document, 
> and nothing else.
> In some languages (or some translations) it just sounds terrible. And 
> there's always this confusione between Preferences and Options.
> 
> I find the Apple way the preferable, and once you get used to, you 
> always find different placements odd.

A separate menu with the application's name would also be OK in my
opinion. Actually this makes a lot of sense as it also gets rid of other
oddities, like Exit in the File menu etc.

Regards,
Denis


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