GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 459163
Contact submenu in the edit menu is weird
Last modified: 2007-08-10 08:32:52 UTC
Right now, it's the contact context menu. It does not fit well in the edit menu. I don't know why you added it there. Another solution would be to have a toplevel menu item in the menubar for this. Or to only have editing functions in this submenu.
That Edit->Contact is actually a submenu that change its name based on the context you click on (e.g. if you click on a group it becomes Edit->Group). Anyway, it makes no sense to me to have duplicate entries, and a user imho, rarely or never will look for context actions / informations in any place other than right click context menu.
Created attachment 93349 [details] [review] removes context submenu from edit menu proposed fix
Is there a GNOME HIG about that? I mean usually actions on the context menu are also available on the toolbar or menu somewhere.
Xavier: http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-types.html#menu-type-drop-down HIG says: "Since the user may not be aware of their presence, do not provide functions that are only accessible from popup menus unless you are confident that your target users will know how to use popup menus." Can we consider our target users confident with IM clients enough to assume they know how to use a popup menu? Pidgin anyway (for instance) does not provide another way to access context menu functions from the toolbar.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 465316 ***