Re: File menu gone ?

Svata Dedic wrote:
> 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).
> 
[snip]
> 
> 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.
> 
I agree. This is mistake and there needs to be File menu.

cf. Mozilla, explorer (I mean Nautilus in this particular case), 
UltraEdit, gnome-terminal, even my GNU Emacs 21.2 (to be honest version 
20 starts menu with Buffers)

Radim

> -Svata
>