GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 157613
HIG. <Image> Edit Preferences...
Last modified: 2005-06-22 13:24:33 UTC
I keep expecting to find Preferences under the edit menu. It would be more in line with the Gnome HIG to include a menu item for Pr_eferences at the bottom of the Edit menu.
The image menu is a context menu. It deals with the context of the image it is attached to. The global preferences however do not belong the image context. At the moment we treat the toolbox, or the dock that holds the toolbox as the main application window in the sense that it gives access to the global context. If the toolbox had an Edit menu, the Preferences should probably go there.
Changing the summary to make it searchable.
there are other items such as the Tools, the Dialogs, File New/Open/Recent/Quit, that depending on how you look at it are not necessarily specific to the image context but are included in both places for convenience. as you haven't rejected this suggestion I'm wondering if that means you will allow it if/when a patch is provided?
It isn't a matter of providing a patch since the change would be more than trivial. It is a matter of deciding whether we want to do this change or not. My vote is for not doing it for the reasons given above. The Edit menu is already rather large.
If you would like to reduce the Edit menu I believe there is scope to consolidate the Stroke and Fill items into a single dialog for each. This would allow for more options (such as stroke line, stroke outside, stroke inside which I believe has been suggested before and probably has a bug report). I would geuss that the current menu items were done that way originally because it made it easy to give keyboard shortcuts to the actions more than anything else.
Sure. And the keyboard shortcut argument is still as valid as before. People need to have a way to find out that these shortcuts exists. Given that Fill is one of the most used shortcuts ever, I don't see it being removed.
2005-06-22 Sven Neumann <sven@gimp.org> * menus/image-menu.xml.in: added Edit->Preferences since that seems to be the standard location nowadays (bug #157613).