Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sun, 9 Aug 2009 20:21:46 +0200
> From: Lennart Borgman <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > I'm saying that subgroups called "advanced" are bad.
> 
> You said
> 
>   In a good UI, each feature should be put under a group whose name
>   gives a hint that the feature could be reasonably looked up in that
>   group.  Having group names such as "Advanced" or "More options", that
>   have no mnemonic value, is abusing the menus, which are supposed to
>   make the job of finding a feature _easier_, not harder.

Yes, and that goes for subgroups as well.