[openbeos] Re: URL Preferences
- From: "unlyrn" <unlyrn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 06:09:12 NZST (+1200)
> That's "the old problem" :-)
> The icon you've included is the solution Apple provided, but I don't
> think it's that good - OTOH I somewhat like the way SoundPlay does
> this
> (it has a special SoundPlay menu which is similar, but more prominent
> than an icon menu), but something like this would have to be
> consistent
> among all apps.
SoundPlay has both a 'File' and a 'SoundPlay' menu.... 'About' is in
SoundPlay, but
'Quit' is in file. This is not a good example IMO...
For what its worth, 'About', 'Quit' and other directly-related-to-the-
app stuff
should be in the top-left menu (since thats the way most apps handle it
- its
probably going to be the most comfortable thing for most users).
I think this menu should probably be labelled with the name of the app
- since
for apps that don't actually load/save data directly, "File" really
doesn't make
any sense; and most users operate on motor memory for these functions
anyway.
At any rate - it would be nice to have some guidelines in place for app
developers - just make sure anything that ships with the OS conforms to
them ;)
David Shipman
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