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Re: Fiddling with the menus
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: Fiddling with the menus |
Date: |
Mon, 10 Aug 2009 02:14:23 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>> > Looking at the result, it does not seems very useful. For
>> > example, clicking on OOP shows a bunch of modes that really have
>> > little to do with Object Oriented Programing. Perhaps it should go
>> > into the “Search Documentation” sub-menu.
>
> There's nothing magic here: the keywords assigned to each package is a
> human's job; Finder just puts all of them into a database and
> trivially searches that. Patches are welcome for adding more keywords
> and (more importantly) to re-index existing packages so that the
> search is more useful.
It is also important to remove some keywords. You just 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.
Exactly the same can be said about keywords. There are keywords that
have no mnemonic value like "convenience", "extensions", "tools".
They should be removed with re-indexing existing packages.
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, (continued)
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, CHENG Gao, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, CHENG Gao, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, Lennart Borgman, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, Jason Rumney, 2009/08/09
- Re: Fiddling with the menus, Stefan Monnier, 2009/08/09
Re: Fiddling with the menus, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09
Re: Fiddling with the menus, Dan Nicolaescu, 2009/08/11
Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Florian Beck, 2009/08/09
Re: Fiddling with the menus (was: bug#4043: 23.1; thanks for emacs 23!), Eli Zaretskii, 2009/08/09