Re: Goodbye Window menu

On 10-09-09 10:25 PM, Michael Geary wrote:
> Whoa, that's a pretty radical menu reorganization.
>
> I guess it's OK, although I might suggest that such a major change
> belongs in a "beta" and not in a "release candidate" - seems like the
> kind of thing you might want feedback on. :-)

Release deadlines approach. :) Yes it was a big change and long overdue. 
We're hoping if helps reduce a lot of confusion we've seen:
"You can have multiple Komodo Windows?", "How do I open the Start 
Page?", "The Code menu is waay too big to be useful", "Project stuff is 
in multiple menus == confusing". Etc. Just unfortunate we didn't have 
time to get to it sooner.

And there are always nightly builds and patch-level releases if we 
seriously mucked up some use cases. :)


> So here goes: I really miss being able to go Alt+W and have it take me
> right to the list of open tabs. I found where it got moved, but Alt+N
> followed by Alt+A isn't nearly as convenient. I wonder if there's any
> way to hard-wire Alt+W to jump straight to that submenu?

There's no way to hardwire that on Windows a single "Alt+<letter>" to go 
to a *sub*-menu. The Alt+<letter> handling is std Windows menu keyboard 
navigation.

I wonder if this would work:
- move the Next Tab, Previous Tab, Go To Tab stuff to the bottom of the 
Navigation menu (in a change just after the RC1 build we moved these 
three together)
- bring the list of tabs (or at least the first 10 or so) to the top-level

I think we'd have to limit the number shown and show a "More >" submenu 
for all the others, else having 50 open tabs would make the Navigation 
menu unuseable. Or maybe not. We didn't do that for the "Window" menu in 
K5, so why bother here.

Thoughts?


Trent

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Trent Mick
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