GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 99655
Preferences menu item should be in the Edit menu
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Currently, both the "Preferences" menu item in the File menu and the "Gnumeric" menu item in the Format menu opens the "Gnumeric Preferences" window. According to the HIG, the "Preferences" menu item belongs to the Edit menu. http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/menus.html#menu-standard-edit Proposed Solution: 1. Remove the "Preferences" menu item from the File menu. 2. Remove the "Gnumeric" menu item in the Format menu. 3. Add a "Preferences" menu item to the Edit menu. A new problem arises when doing this because the Edit menu already contains 15 menu items. The HIG document clearly says "Limit top-level menus to a maximum of about 15 items. If you have any more items than this, consider moving a functionally-related subset of the items into a submenu or a new top-level menu.". A solution would be to move the "Search...", "Search and Replace..." and "Goto Cell..." menu items into a new top-level "Search" menu, such as in gedit. This would also improve the accessibility of these functions. The best way to go is probably to insert this "Search" menu between the Edit menu and the View menu. Note that this should be done in both the bonobo and the non-bonobo version.
Created attachment 13241 [details] [review] unified context diff
The above patch implements the proposed solution. The new "Search" menu is inserted behind the "View" menu (such as is done in gedit). I also standardized the text of the Search and Replace menu items. I have touched as little code as possible. Additionally, I fixed a tooltip inconsistency of both the "Delete..." menu item in the "Edit" menu and the "PivotTable..." menu item in the "Data" menu. I also added a stock icon to the "Delete..." menu item in the "Edit" menu.
I have fixed the tooltip inconsistence and the stock item for Delete. The rearrangement of the menus has been incorporated in to the menu proposal Bug 116535. I am therefore changing this bug to `duplicate of 116535'. We can hopefully do those menu changes for 1.3. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 116535 ***