Menu restructuring
Hylke Bons
h.bons at student.rug.nl
Thu May 24 08:12:21 EDT 2007
I love this idea. Let's work it out.
I don't get the "List"-supergroup. And if there's going to be one, "Add"
should be part of it, because you're adding to the list.
I also think menu's deeper then one submenu are annoying and should be
avoided where possible.
Let's take "List" as root node:
[Pidgin List]
\ Show...
\ ...Offline Budies
\ ...Empty Groups
\ Etc
\ Sort By...
\ ...Manually
\ ...Alpha
\ Etc
\ Add
\ Account
\ Buddy
\ Chat
\ Group
\ View
\ Room List
\ System Log
\ File Transfers
\ account1 at jabber.org
\ Edit Account
\ Yadda
\ Yadda
\ account2 at hotmail.com
\ Edit Account
\ Foo
\ Bar
Now the "Account" menu is useless, Let's replace it with:
Edit (much shorter, and used in many GNOME applications)
\ Preferences
\ Plugins
\ Privacy
\ Buddy Pounces
Now the menu bar contains: "Buddies Edit Help"
I know these are major changes, but they are just ideas. :)
Hylke
> Has anyone considered or mocked-up an old-ICQ-style square Pidgin icon
> next to the status selector, that might have a menu like:
>
> [P]
> \ Add
> \ Account
> \ Buddy
> \ Chat
> \ Group
> \ account1 at jabber.org
> \ Edit Account
> \ Yadda
> \ Yadda
> \ account2 at hotmail.com
> \ Edit Account
> \ Foo
> \ Bar
> \ Tools
> \ All the existing tools stuff
> \ List
> \ Show Offline Buddies
> \ Show Empty Groups
> \ Show Idle Times
> \ Show Buddy Details
> \ Sort By
> \ Manually
> \ Alpha
> \ Etc
>
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