Red Gnus 0.66: Menu suggestions

Red Gnus 0.66: Menu suggestions

[Per Abrahamsen]

The menu structure needs a lot of clean up.  Here is some suggestions:

(| means submenu)

* The Group menu:

Misc|Customize -> Groups|Editing groups

The Undo menu should be removed, and the Undo item should be move to
Misc. 

Misc|Toggle topics should be removed.  It is already in the Topics
menu. 

Groups|Score file should be removed, and the Flush cache item should
be moved to Misc.

Groups|Editing groups should be moved to Group|Edit.

Group|Edit kill file should be moved to  Group|Edit|Kill file.

Misc|Delete bogus groups should be moved to Groups.

Misc|Find new newsgroups should be moved to Groups.

Misc|SOUP should be moved higher in the menu.  It is good to have
submenus near the top.

* The Summary Menu:

Misc|Mark|* should be Misc|(Mark )*

Misc|Cache|* should be Misc|Mark various|*

gnus-score-customize should be added to the Score menu

* The Message Menu:

The "Goto Field" commands should probably be in a separate "Field"
menubar entry. 

Re: Red Gnus 0.66: Menu suggestions

[Hrvoje Niksic]

Per Abrahamsen (abraham@dina.kvl.dk) wrote:
> The menu structure needs a lot of clean up.  Here is some
> suggestions:

If these things are done, maybe it is a good moment to implement the
takeover of XEmacs menubar.  How hard is it, anyway?  Bill?

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Re: Red Gnus 0.66: Menu suggestions

[William M. Perry]

Hrvoje Niksic writes:
>Per Abrahamsen (abraham@dina.kvl.dk) wrote:
>> The menu structure needs a lot of clean up.  Here is some
>> suggestions:
>
>If these things are done, maybe it is a good moment to implement the
>takeover of XEmacs menubar.  How hard is it, anyway?  Bill?

  Take a look at w3-menu.el in the Emacs-W3 distribution - this works out
really well.  Each menu is 'named' by a symbol that would be on a
gnus-*-menus (where * would be whatever, but at least group, summary, and
article versions) variable.

  So for gnus-summary-menus, I would set to '(sort mark dispose ...)

  A value of '1' would just put _all_ the menus in a single 'GNUS' menu in
the main menubar.  This approach works really well for Emacs-W3 and VM.

-Bill P.

Re: Red Gnus 0.66: Menu suggestions

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

"William M. Perry" <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

>   Take a look at w3-menu.el in the Emacs-W3 distribution - this works out
> really well.  Each menu is 'named' by a symbol that would be on a
> gnus-*-menus (where * would be whatever, but at least group, summary, and
> article versions) variable.
> 
>   So for gnus-summary-menus, I would set to '(sort mark dispose ...)

Looks nice.  I've added this to the todo list.

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Re: Red Gnus 0.66: Menu suggestions

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen]

Per Abrahamsen <abraham@dina.kvl.dk> writes:

> The menu structure needs a lot of clean up.  Here is some suggestions:

I've followed all your suggestions, except the following:

> The Undo menu should be removed, and the Undo item should be move to
> Misc. 

Is there an Undo menu?

> Misc|Toggle topics should be removed.  It is already in the Topics
> menu. 

But not until you switch topic mode on.

> * The Summary Menu:
> 
> Misc|Mark|* should be Misc|(Mark )*

I don't quite follow...  Oh, make the sub-submenus into sub-menus?
Ok. 

> Misc|Cache|* should be Misc|Mark various|*

There will probably be more cache commands in the future, so we might
as well leave that as it is, I think.

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