[yoshimi] Re: Top Line reorganisation
- From: Will Godfrey <willgodfrey@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: yoshimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2015 21:03:16 +0000
On Sun, 01 Nov 2015 09:53:21 +0100
Kristian Amlie <kristian@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 01. nov. 2015 01:32, Will Godfrey wrote:
OK, can people have a look at the current master please.
The button changes are pretty obvious, but also run along the tabs along the
top.
Do they make sense? Are the names OK?
Even if you absolutely hate it please do say so. Nothing is fixed in stone.
Should we make 'Show' generic, and include the preset paths, and scales
window?
Very minor: Maybe rename 'Show' to 'View', and make it the second menu
after 'Yoshimi'. No strong reason, it just seems more "standard", take a
look at both Firefox and LibreOffice, for example (it's the third menu
there, but we are missing the 'Edit' menu).
Doh! I spent ages trying to think of a better word than 'show'. I'll change
that to 'view' on the next commit. As for position on the menu bar, I've no
strong feelings but don't want to move things around more than necessary.
More generally, maybe we should think about having a 'File' menu like so
many others. It makes sense to group all the load/save entries there,
perhaps with some separators for logical grouping. I'm just thinking it
makes sense, since four of the six menus have almost nothing but
load/save. Just a suggestion.
This is a difficult one. We used to have a 'file' menu, but Cal broke it up
because it was far too long and contained lots of quite unrelated items. On a
personal level I've been having similar issues with the 'instrument' menu, and
forever hitting the wrong item when working fast and inspired - it does
happen sometimes :)
I really would like a lot more opinions on this. We're not very representative
at the moment :o
@Chris
Unfortunately Yoshimi has never managed the Alt{key} entries on the menu bar,
but does once in any of the menus. Old Zyn got it wrong too in exactly the same
way. Presumably it's some kind of keyboard focus issue. If anyone wants to
look at it, I'd be very grateful.
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