Re: Menubar on text only terminals

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2007-04-01 09:36, Nick Roberts <address@hidden> wrote:
>>     This probably isn't for the release, but I think toolbar
>>     functionality maps better onto text only terminals than
>>     the menubar because there are no pull down menus to worry
>>     about.
>> 
>> I am really lost there.
> 
> With tmm, sub-menus have to be navigated through completions
> lists, which some find inconvenient.  Toolbars don't have that
> extra complexity.  I'm just trying to say that toolbars and
> text terminals (with use of the mouse) are a more natural fit.

That's kind of debatable.  Programs like the text-mode elinks web
browser work quite nicely with a text mode menubar.  The menu bar
of Emacs works in a different way than the elinks menu bar, but I
don't see why this makes it less useful than the toolbar.