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Re: Enhancements to options menu


From: Kim F. Storm
Subject: Re: Enhancements to options menu
Date: 02 May 2002 22:20:40 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.50

Karl Eichwalder <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Kim F. Storm) writes:
> 
> > I think that we should consider adding a few more sub-menues
> > to the Options menu
> 
> Doing configuration through (sub)menus is quite cumbersome. 

Yes, but it allows us to easily demonstrate the available features
without adding the complexity of a large "Preferences" buffer with
lots of buttons...

> State of
> the art is to offer some major setting through menu toggle line ("Enable
> Javascript" in galeon) and offer the rest through "Preferences..."
> dialog screens (a "notebook" or "tabs").
> 
> Often less is more :)
>

But today we have very few easily accessible options -- and to find
the rest is pretty difficult for the novice users.

-- 
Kim F. Storm <address@hidden> http://www.cua.dk




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