RE: [platform-ui-dev] Window menu

["Rozenberg, Ilya" <IRozenberg@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Workbench -> Preferences is better then Window -> Preferences, but I think that a top level menu dedicated explicitly to customization would very convenient.

My choice is extendable Configure menu where Preferences would land and no Window menu.

I would also add the ability to start Preferences dialog with favorite topic Preferences page selected on the tree.

This way a perspective will be able to give user shortcuts to the most important settings from this perspective point of view.

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg_Adams@xxxxxxx [mailto:Greg_Adams@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Sunday, December 09, 2001 10:22 PM
To: platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [platform-ui-dev] Window menu

Hi Ilya, 

*     
   Are you suggesting the introduction of a new top level menu (either 
Preferences, Settings, Options, or Configure) that only has one menu option on 
it? 
        One 
could move other options like perspective -> customize to it , but this seems 
unnatural since it makes it less obvious. 

*        Is the alternative to place Preferences onto 
the new Workbench menu - this may appeal to you since the current preference 
dialog applies workspace wide (i.e. it is not responding to selection, or active 
part). 



UI component 
team. 
*        Do 
you know if there is a lot of feadback with people unable to find the 
preferences. 

*       
 My guess (possibly wrong) is that folks just learn where it is. It is 
semantically different enough from 
        most operations that its location is unlikely 
to cause confusion. Also many apps tend to put it in different 
        places so there is no "common 
standard" - some use Tools, some Options, some Edit (I hate that one). 


-----Original Message-----
From: 
Rozenberg, Ilya 
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:09 AM
To: 
'platform-ui-dev@xxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: [platform-ui-dev] Proposal to 
rename Project menu to
Workbench


I agree 100%. There is one more 
problem of this type.
3) Window->Preferences is not intuitive and 
misleading.
Any of it will be 
better:
Options->Preferences
Settings->Preferences
Preferences->Customize


One more 
suggestion
Configure->Preferences.
This is more obvious then Window, 
but less general then Tools