GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 88318
Clean up new window/tab menu items when only one profile exists
Last modified: 2005-09-25 15:31:48 UTC
When you only have one profile set up (be it the default or otherwise), it would probably be better if the list of profiles didn't show up on the New Window and New Tab submenus... right now it looks a bit silly: New Window > Default Shift+Ctrl+T -- 1. Default Alternatively, you could maybe lose the first item altogether, and just list the shortcut against the current default profile. So if you only had one profile you'd get: New Window > 1. Default Shift+Ctrl+T and for more than one you'd get something like: New Window > 1. Default 2. Blue xterm Shift+Ctrl+T 3. Yellow vt100
Seems sane.
Duplicate already had the usability keyword set, even :) Wouldn't have been that hard to find ;) That said, this has more concrete suggestions so marking that a dup of this.
*** Bug 79426 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
As an alternative, have: New Window New Window Using Profile-> (bad wording) The idea is that people who don't use profiles (I'm willing to bet most people do not use profiles) can completely ignore them.
Updating status_whiteboard field to reflect A11Y team's assessment of accessibility impact.
Next is a patch implementing Calum's first option: make the New Window/New Tab menu items not have submenus when there is just one profile (most probable scenario, I guess) Calum's second option (dropping the first item in the submenu) look funny when there is just one profile: submenus having one item are ugly, IMO.
Created attachment 18293 [details] [review] Remove the profile submenus in New Window/Tab when they're not needed
Looks good, I believe this has to wait until we branch gnome-2-4 and can put it on HEAD though.
This does need updating the docs in Usage/To Open and Close Terminals section.
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This would be great to apply soon . . . But do we have to wait because of that feature freeze thing?
We can get this in, being it ui-reviewish, I guess. The only reason it's not commiteted, in fact, is that iirc the HUG does not like menus coming and going that much: Calum, is this patch really better than the status quo?
Probably not a big enough deal to be throwing in at the last minute, anyway-- I'd be happy enough to wait or discuss it more if there are any concerns about it. (Having a submenu with just one item is kind of sucky as well, after all...)
I'm adding the BLOCKED_BY_FREEZE keyword, but I hesitate some because of Calum's comments about extra discussion. Someone feel free to remove it if they feel that this isn't close enough to being appliable after the next thaw.
Pinging Calum and other u7y people for comments... Not putting the submenus is definitely the best for people not using profiles, though. Now that I think of it, too, I should make the Change Profile item in the Terminal menu insensitive when there is just one profile.
Created attachment 29523 [details] [review] Same as before, and make /Terminal/Change Profile insensitive when there is 1 profile
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blocked by freeze definitely doesn't apply right now... :-)
*** Bug 307497 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I commited this to HEAD.