Amarok menu organiztion on the mac

[Maximilian Kossick]

On Friday 21 March 2008, Big O wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 12:52 PM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann at kde.org>
>
> wrote:
> > On 3/21/08, Ian Monroe <ian at monroe.nu> wrote:
> > > On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 11:31 AM, Maximilian Kossick <mkossick at gmx.de>
> >
> > wrote:
> > >  >  And "Engage" is not confusing?
> > >  >
> > >  >  Max (who knows that it's supposed to be joke...it's just that he
> >
> > feels that an
> >
> > >  >  application's menu bar might not be the proper place for a Star
> > >  > Trek
> >
> > joke)
> >
> > > Well I always felt it was better then "Actions", certainly better then
> > >  two Play* menus.
> >
> > Can't we just special case it somehow for OSX? There must be a way to
> > avoid having two "Amarok" menus?
>
> The only way I know of is to rename the second menu entry. The first must
> be the application's name.
> And all the changes I've made here are all special cases only for OS X.
> None of these changes will show up in linux/windows versions.
>
> As for the second issue. Playback next to playlist does look a bit weird,
> but those menu titles indicate exactly what the entries control so I think
> they should stay. We can just reorganize to make playlist show up later on
>
> Amarok   Playback    Tools   Playlist   Settings   Help
>
> Or we can just rip a menu title directly from iTunes/Play (and probably
> other OS X media players) and change the name to "Controls".
>
> Amarok   Controls    Playlist   Tools   Settings   Help
>
> OR we can just rename it to "File". Most of the operations are performed on
> files anyway.
>
We did talk about this at last year's fosdem, and iiirc "Music" was the result 
fo that discussion.
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