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

  • From: Denis Washington <dwashington@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2008 15:30:54 +0100

On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 15:23 +0100, Matthieu Guéguen wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Petter Holt Juliussen
> <mailinglists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Simon Taylor skrev:
> >
> > > I don't like the idea of the app-icon (I don't see a good reason why
> >  > this menu should be different from the others). In the same way as the
> >  > file menu is called "File" regardless of the name of your file,
> >  > "Application" makes perfect sense to me, and seems the obvious home
> >  > for About... Options... and Quit.
> >  This is probably the most logical way to do it. This would also make it
> >  more consistent, not using the application-name itself.
> >  'Application' would have application-specific options, 'File' the
> >  file-specific and so on. Don't know how it would look/work
> >  in practice.
> >
> >
> 
> +1
> 
> Also note that on MacOSX, it is really interesting to have the
> application name in the menubar because there is only one menubar on
> top. So the app name allows to easily know to which app the menu
> belong to.
> On Haiku, you don't need app name in the menu. So I'd prefer to have a
> menu called "Application".

Yeah makes sense. I wouldn't object an app icon, but an "Application"
menu would certainly do the job too. +1

Regards,
Denis


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