File menu gone ?
Svata Dedic <[email protected]>
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Hello, all, It seems that the change is probably intentional, but I was quite surprised when I did not see "File" menu as the first item in the main menu bar; instead of that, there was "Project" menu (sources from 18/4/2003). Especially some of its items looked very funny: * Project > Exit * Project > Save: it does save the file being edited, however. * Project > Save All: but it saves files from all projects * Project > Print: Operates on the current file, not a project * Project > Print Setup: heh, this is ALWAYS in File menu, isn't it ? While Save All operates on everything (not stricly on an [active] Project), but some actions operate on the active project (Project > New > Resource, Project > New > Build Target). Even worse - items in the Project > New menu are mixed from 2 conceptual levels: projects / project group, which work with Workplace and build target / resource - artifacts that live and are created within (the active) project. It took me a while of thinking what will New > Resource do and where it will place the new resource :-\ I took a ride through IntelliJ, Microsoft Visual Studio 6/.NET and Eclipse. Although they are all project oriented and Eclipse and MSVC even show multiple projects at a time, none of the teams was bold enough to remove "File" menu and indicate there are no "file operations". So - why was "File" menu was removed ? I can't seem to find reasons strong enough for such a novel approach to menu contents. -Svata