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Bug 115956 - Cleanup- Menus
Cleanup- Menus
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 116535
Product: Gnumeric
Classification: Applications
Component: GUI
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Jody Goldberg
Jody Goldberg
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-06-25 19:36 UTC by Adrian Custer
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
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Description Adrian Custer 2003-06-25 19:36:34 UTC
This bug includes several suggestions for menu cleanups:

1) File menu:
 -Add a sperator between Properties and Preferences
 -Possibly move the Properties entry before the printing stuff

Rationale: 
  Properties apply to the document whereas Preferences configures Gnumeric.
These should be carefully distinguished and so should be separated. The
operations in the top part of the menu apply to the current file whereas
the lower operations apply to gnumeric.

2)Format Menu:
 -Drop the "Gnumeric" entry or move to the bottom below a separator
 -Add a separtor above "Autoformat"

Rationale:
  The hiearchy of formatting options from cells to workbooks is nice,
showing the various levels that formatting can be added to a workbook.
Autoformat is a different thing, almost like a "Tool", which allows quick
pre-defined options. "Formatting" gnumeric is totally different, and
actually redundant with the File menu entry. This redundancy is
undesireable but if this entry is needed here it should be clearly
separated as something distinct.

3) Tools Menu:
 -Move the Tools menu to the right of the Data menu
 -Move Auto-correct to the Data menu
 -Move Auto-Save to the file menu
 -Change the "Risk simulation" entry to "Simulation"

Rationale:
  The tools menu describes advanced functionality which operates on the
current workbook. Data manipulation is more fundamental (e.g. sorting) and
so should be to the left. Neither of the auto* is terribly advanced and
don't apply in the same way as the other tool menu entries to the workbook.
Auto-correct describes an operation during data entry and belongs as an
editing or data manipulation option. Auto-save is a file operation which
could be grouped either with the file operations of the file menu or in the
preferences of the gnumeric preference dialog.
  Simulation applies to all sorts of problems only some of which involve
calculating risks.

cheers,
adrian
Comment 1 Andreas J. Guelzow 2003-07-05 16:54:31 UTC
These proposals have been incorporated into the general menu change
proposal Bug 116535

closing this request as a duplicate of the more general 116535.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116535 ***