Re: [Denemo-devel] Custom menus

[Jean-René Reinhard]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 08:41:00PM +0100, Richard Shann wrote:
> 
> (This email was blocked when it had an attachment, here it is without)
> 
> At http://www.rshann.plus.com/customizedMenu.png  is a screenshot of
> Denemo. Two of the menus are pinned-up, and
> you can see on them two items which do not exist in the source. One is
> Guitar Fingerings and the other Multi Measure Rests.
> How did they get there? Well, you can see there is also a new menu
> Favorites, which is in the source, which has an add favorite menuitem.
> With this you can add a menuitem anywhere in the system, giving it a
> name, tooltip and LilyPond text of your choice. (You can also add a
> shortcut). 
> When you click on the new item, you are offered the LilyPond text to
> edit (e.g. MultiMeasure rests require a time signature and number of
> measures) and
> the action then inserts that LilyPond.
> What's the point? Well, if you put into the menu system everything
> everybody could ever want, no one would ever find anything.

I understood the menu system as a crutch for people unwilling to read the
documentation. As such, I assumed that its goal was to give a quick acces to a
keybinding for commands. Ideally, such menu is not required...