Re: File menu gone ?

Radim Kubacki <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.netbeans.modules.projects.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
OK, since there is no response (are all Svata's mails ignored?) I found 
http://ui.netbeans.org/docs/ui/menus40/index.html and
http://www.netbeans.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=32319
Menus should follow UI spec.

and added comment to it

Radim

Radim Kubacki wrote:
> 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
>>
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