discuss: consistency in KDE GUI

[Stefan Monov]

On Saturday 23 December 2006 15:38, Iñaki wrote:
> El Sábado, 23 de Diciembre de 2006 14:28, Big O escribió:
> > > > > KMail doesnt deal with files, its menubar starts with "File"!
> > > >
> > > > Actually it does deal with files. Attachments are files. The mail
> > > > messages you read and compose are files as well.
> > >
> > > I don't thing so: for common users a "mail" is not a "file". And the
> > > menu names should be understood by whole people.
> >
> > Given that Thunderbird, Apple's Mail,  Outlook, and god knows what else
> > uses a file menu, I don't think whole people will have much problem with
> > the whole "File" menu paradigm.
>
> These programs don't allow writing the contact entries in a LDAP server,
> just reading. Should Kontact leave allowing full access to LDAP because it?
>
> Anyway, I don't consider this point so important, in fact it's not so wrong
> to call the menu entry "File".
>
> > > PD: A mail is not a file necesarily. If the format is mbox then
> > > a "mailbox" file contains ALL the mails in a single file.
> >
> > in a what? file?
> > OK now I'm just being facetious, I'll stop.
> > The point I was attempting to make is the File menu is appropriate even.
> > KMail deals with files, saves files and on occasion will even eat files.
> > But that's only during the betas :-)
>
> The point here is that most applications have a "File" menu entry even if
> they don't deal with "real" files. And the users are used to it, so no
> problem.
thought i'd chime in:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=139170

as to other items such as Open and Save As, they're more about _files_ than 
anything else, so menu File does have its purpose.