Re: [tasklist] Menu items moved

Or here's an alternative thought - organize these items
into a single submenu on the node context menu.
"Other" ?  "Global" ?  hmm.

-- Tor

On Tue, 2003-03-04 at 09:38, Tor Norbye wrote:
> I notice Tim has moved some menu items (such as Filter,
> Expunge Tasks, Edit Types, ...) away from the node context
> menus.
> 
> They are now available on the context menu on the window tab.
> 
> This has the advantage that the context menu is a lot smaller,
> which makes it more managable - and it's also more conceptually
> clean, since the context contains only actions that apply to
> the selected node(s), not "global" actions like expunge completed
> tasks.
> 
> But it has the disadvantage that it may be harder to find/discover
> these items. (I had to search to locate them).
> 
> What are your thoughts on this?  Do you think users will find
> these actions in the window tab context menu?   Part of the
> reason I'm slightly worried people won't look there is that the
> window context menus typically only contain actions related to
> the window (clone, close, dock, ...) not the data contained in
> the window (the tasklist itself).
> 
> Do you think an alternative like the following will work
> better: move these actions back to the node context menu (and possibly
> leave them in the windows menu as well), but organize all of them
> at the end of the context menu (except leave properties at the end,
> by convention). That way, the context menu contains all the node
> operations, followed by the global tasklist related operations,
> followed by properties. This means the menu grows again - but
> discoverability should be improved. 
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> -- Tor
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Tor Norbye <[email protected]>
Sun Microsystems, Inc