---- Reported by shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2010-06-21 18:28:00 -0700 ----

Original Redmine bug id: 2180
Original URL: http://redmine.yorba.org/issues/2180
Searchable id: yorba-bug-2180
Original author: Robert Ancell
Original description:

When opening the Shotwell window the user is presented with 7 menus which is a
lot of information to process. I find myself hunting through the menus for
features and I would expect the menu to be quite intimidating for some users.

Some observations:

- 7 menus is a lot

- Menus change quite significantly when changing context which can be jarring

- Use of old fashioned “File†“Edit†“View†names. These are vague and don't work well in modern applications where you don't always have a simple single document interface (Note these are still recommended in the HIG but I personally am on a crusade to get rid of them).

- Editing functionality is spread across multiple menus

- Low use menus could be moved into a preferences dialog to reduce clutter

I've attached the current menus, here is a first attempt to rationalize the
menus (needs work, doesn't have all the functionality):

Library

* * *

- Undo (I always have trouble finding somewhere to put these, probably should go to photo menu? – it's already too big though)

- Redo

* * *

- Slideshow

- Publish…

- New Event

* * *

- Quit

* * *

Settings

* * *

- Show titles

- Show tags

- Show photo details

- Sort photos

  * …

- Sort events

  * …

* * *

- Zoom In (really doesn't fit in settings menu)

- Zoom Out

- Fullscreen

* * *

- Preferences

* * *

Photo

* * *

- Rotate Right

- Rotate Left

- Center

- Mirror

- Enhance

* * *

- Select All

- Duplicate

- Remove

- Revert to Original

* * *

- Mark as Favourite

- Add Tag…

- Print…

- Properties

- Use

  * Set as Desktop Background
  * Save to File

* * *

Help

- Contents

- About

* * *

Related issues:
related to shotwell - 4066: Simplify photo collection context menu (Open)
related to shotwell - Feature #1301: rename File menu to Photo menu (Duplicate)
duplicated by shotwell - 3045: Consider re-configuring menus to be more
media-type agnostic (Duplicate)



---- Additional Comments From shotwell-maint@gnome.bugs 2013-05-16 14:41:00 -0700 ----

### History

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#1

Updated by Adam Dingle over 3 years ago

Robert,

thanks for the suggestion. We've also considered making some changes to the
Shotwell menus. I will say, however, that we very much want Shotwell to be a
core GNOME application and so it's unlikely that we'll take the Shotwell menus
in a direction away from that recommended by the HIG and used by other GNOME
applications. I think it might be premature to call the “Edit†and
“View†menus old-fashioned given that all other core GNOME applications
(e.g. Nautilus, gedit, Rhythmbox, Totem) have these menus today. It's true
that our File menu should possibly be called Photo (this is#1301). If we
implement that, then the File and Photos menus would presumably merge in some
way, although I have some concern that the resulting menu might be too long.

The logic behind the current menu layout is as follows:

  * Commands for interacting with the external world are in the File menu (e.g. import, export, publish, show in file manager).
  * Commands that affect the library are in the Edit menu (e.g. remove from library, duplicate), as are the Undo and Redo commands which traditionally live there.
  * Commands which operate on individual photos are in the Photos menu. (The Open with External Editor command is there too. We considered putting it in the File menu since it does interact with the outside world, but ultimately decided to have it in Photos because it is another way of editing a photo, which is what the Photos menu items do.)

This may not be perfect, but there does seem to be a logical home for each
menu item and none of the menus are absurdly long, which makes me happy.

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#2

Updated by Clinton Rogers over 2 years ago

  * **Subject** changed from _Simplify menus_ to _GNOME Standards: Simplify menus_

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#3

Updated by Jim Nelson 11 months ago

  * **Target version** set to _0.14.0_

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#4

Updated by Jim Nelson 11 months ago

  * **Category** set to _ux_

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#5

Updated by Jim Nelson 10 months ago

  * **Target version** changed from _0.14.0_ to _0.15.0_

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#6

Updated by Jim Nelson 6 months ago

  * **Target version** deleted (<strike>_0.15.0_</strike>)



--- Bug imported by chaz@yorba.org 2013-11-25 21:45 UTC  ---

This bug was previously known as _bug_ 2180 at http://redmine.yorba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2180
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