On Feb 18, 2008 3:57 PM, <philippe.houdoin@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > While you're at it, is anyone against moving "Preferences..." out of > > the "Edit" menu? > > Edit > Preferences sounds more logical than File > Preferences, or Help > > Preferences or Tools > Preferences, no? > What this menu item is allowing user to edit preferences, right? > > > I always find this placement very odd when I encounter > > it (there are a few apps which follow this logic). > > FireFox, ThunderBird, Nautilus, for instance. Tools > Options... (at the bottom of the menu) is the standard in Windows if that's worth anything. Even FireFox, ThunderBird and OpenOffice.org does that here. So if Tools > Preferences was where Axel wanted it, that can't be too wrong from a familiarity perspective. > I'm not for having an "App Icon" systematic menu in the menu bar, but if we > had such policy, the Preferences menu item should be there. > Without, it's hard to have a consistent position for such menu. > > Meat for a UI team brainstorming, maybe. Yeah, adding such a menu will surely trigger some "you're copying Apple!" claims, but that will wear off pretty quick. A bigger problem with doing anything like that is that it will take ages before 3rd party software gets consistent with your standard. Truls