Menu-Structure

[Aleix Pol]

On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 9:51 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:

> On 16.02.10 20:10:24, Vadym Krevs wrote:
> > On 16 February 2010 19:51, Alexander Dymo <alexander.dymo at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > > 2010/2/16 Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>:
> > >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 7:44 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>
> wrote:
> > >>> wanted to share with everybody some concerns that were raised by
> Cyrille
> > >>> Berger (working on krita) on my blog:
> > >>>
> > >>> http://apaku.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/kdevelop4-beta8/#comments
> > >
> > > Basically those are the ones that I raised a while back during the
> > > discussion. And now after using KDevelop with a new menu structure for
> > > a couple of days I take all my objections back :)
> > > The consistency is good, but the new structure makes way more sense.
> >
> > Perhaps, this is the kind of change that you may want to consider
> > asking Kdevelop users whether they prefer the new or the old menu
> > structure? If you care about the opinion of this particular user, I'd
> > very much prefer the old menus for the same reasons as the krita
> > developer.
>
> I know this will sound like we don't care about our users, but first and
> foremost I am my own user and hence I'm not going to work on reverting
> to the old structure as I (as a user) like the new structure. After all,
> we're working on this for our fun and/or to have an IDE that we (as in
> kdevelop developers) can use.
>
> That said, I think the implementation allows to relatively easily switch
> the first two "groups" of menus. Which would at least alleviate the
> major concerns posted in the blog as far I can see.


> Personally I don't see why top-left position makes something an
> important menu item. In fact I think the most-important items should be
> around the middle of the menu area making the average mouse-distance as
> short as possible.
>
> Sounds like a good solution to me, that's why we have separators in the
end.


> Andreas
>
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