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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: ding@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: No "Edit" menu-item in "Gnus"
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 06:24:11 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <uhd0dl5wk.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <858xlp8wrs.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (message from David Kastrup on Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:22:15 +0200)

> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:22:15 +0200
> Cc: Gnus <ding@gnus.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Menus are for frequently used commands.  If in a particular situation
> the entries of a menu are of rare use, and others are more important,
> omitting the rarely used menu might make sense.

That's true, but I don't think "Edit" items are so rarely used in this
case.

> The menu bar should fit on an 80-column text tty.  That is a hard
> limit that can't be come by by changing font sizes or resizing
> windows.

I think rearranging the Gnus-specific menu bar items so that there are
fewer top-level items can solve the problem without exceeding this
limit.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-16  3:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <m3k65b4ug3.fsf@kfs-l.imdomain.dk>
2006-08-14 19:25 ` Reiner Steib
2006-08-15 20:54   ` Kim F. Storm
2006-08-15 22:12     ` Drew Adams
2006-08-15 22:22       ` David Kastrup
2006-08-15 23:37         ` Drew Adams
2006-08-16  3:24         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2006-08-15 21:28   ` Jason Rumney
2006-08-16  6:24   ` Jan Djärv
2006-08-16  6:29     ` David Kastrup
2006-08-16  6:34       ` Jan Djärv
2006-08-16  7:16       ` Drew Adams
2006-08-16 19:27     ` Richard Stallman

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