RE: [cdt-dev] Renaming "DSF Disassembly"

[John Cortell <rat042@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:32 AM 2/19/2010, John Cortell wrote:
> > since the most
> > frequently actions should be accessible in the toolbar. 
>
> BTW, I just want to point out the guideliness I was referring to go
> beyond screen real-estate considerations. They deal with the nature of
> the action (what they do/act-on). I wish I could remember where I'd seen
> them.

A co-worker sent me a link to the guidelines:

http://www.eclipse.org/articles/Article-UI-Guidelines/Contents.html

Here is the relevant text. I'll inject that I've found quite a few
violations of the specific guideline I've highlighted in red, but I guess
the guideline does support  current DSF Disassembly view approach of
duplicating the actions.


Use the view pulldown menu for presentation commands, not
selection-oriented commands.  These are commands which affect the
presentation of the view, but not the objects within the view. Do not put
presentation commands in the context menu. For instance, the Sort and
Filter commands within the Navigator view affect the presentation of
resources, but do not affect the resources themselves.

A context menu should be used for context sensitive interaction with the
objects in a view.  If an object is selected in a view, and the
context menu is opened, the context menu should only contain actions
which are appropriate for the selection.  Actions which affect the
presentation of the view should not appear in the context menu. 

The toolbar is used to expose the most commonly used commands in a
view.  Any command which appears in the
toolbar must also appear in the menu (either the context menu or the view
menu), but there is no need to duplicate every command in the menu
within the toolbar.