GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 556021
Change File menu to Terminal menu
Last modified: 2021-06-10 19:46:29 UTC
## Current menu layout ## File Edit View Terminal Tabs Help ## Suggested menu layour ## Terminal Edit View Tabs Help ## Reasons ## From HIG: "If your application does not operate on documents, name this item for the type of object it displays. For example, many games should have a Game instead of a File menu. However, place the Quit menu item last on this menu nonetheless." [1] Terminal doesn't operate on documents, so I think could be really good move to suggested layout. Of course menu items in current File and Terminal menus should be rearranged accrorly. Something like this seems good to me: Terminal New Window New Tab ----------- Set Profile > New Profile Set Title ----------- Close < close current tab (see HIG) Exit < exit all gnome-terminal windows (see HIG) Edit Copy Paste ------------ Profiles... Keyboard Shortcuts.. < not sure those 3 items needs Profiles Preferences.. < the ... ; not _needed_ user ------------ < input to perform action Set Character Encoding View [x] Statusbar --------------- < this separator isn't in current layout Zoom In Zoom Out Normal Size --------------- Reset Reset and Clean --------------- [ ] Fullscreen [1] http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/menus-standard.html.en#the-file-menu
I approve this report.
I totally agree with this. Was about to report the same bug myself.
A few minor comments though: * 'Set' isn't required in 'Set Profile >' * 'New Profile...' isn't necessary. Put it in the Profile entry: Profile > Profile 1 Prolile 2 --------- Profiles... * 'Edit Title' or 'Change Title' would be more appropriate than 'Set Title' * 'Set Character Encoding >' should be just 'Character Encoding >'. This would be better in View or Terminal than in Edit (you're not exactly editing here, are you?) * 'Quit' is preferred to 'Exit', afaik * Why have 'Reset' and 'Reset and Clean' in the View menu? It's not so much to do with viewing as it is with the terminal itself My version of the Terminal menu: Terminal New Window New Tab ---------- Profile > Change Title... Character Encoding > ---------- Reset Reset and Clear ---------- Close Quit
*** Bug 614768 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Wow, i just filed the same bug report :) My only addition would be to use a checkbox for normal size: [X] Normal Size
Current Menu layout is not very intuitively named seen obviously in "File", Terminal doesn't open File of any type par say so why the menu item? :) I agree on the proposal given here.
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