Take a look at the Main Menu, often called the "File" menu, in the app you are looking at now.
Open any application and look, some are different, yes.
What makes sense in that list? More importantly what doesn't.
It's never made sense to me why it's called the file menu, probably because it's a throwback to a bygone era.
What has revived this issue for me is Amarok. It's an awesome program and now is almost V2.0. Here it shows some extra initiative. And another reason to like the philosophy
The "File" menu is gone. Replaced with the "Amarok" menu. You add files and media in the "Playlist Menu"
IMO they should go one more step and put the "Settings Menu" into the "Amarok" menu i.e. Amarok > Settings.
The opposite to this is another great program, SMplayer. They went silly and changed "File" menu to "Open". And in there is "Close" and "Exit". So you go... "Open" > "Close" or "Open" > "Exit". That's insane. And sorry, but yes I mean it devs.
So I think you get my drift about the "File" menu.
I strongly suggest that the KDE devs have a look at this and get some uniformity that follows Amarok's lead. (There may be others, I'm using Amarok as this example).
Simply by using the applications name instead of "File", and all the application settings and stuff goes in there as well. e.g. "Amarok" > "Settings" or "Preferences".
Ok, I've got it off my chest, I made a post.
It's just something i would like to see happen. I think it makes sense.
Wha'd'ya'reckon?
Open any application and look, some are different, yes.
What makes sense in that list? More importantly what doesn't.
It's never made sense to me why it's called the file menu, probably because it's a throwback to a bygone era.
What has revived this issue for me is Amarok. It's an awesome program and now is almost V2.0. Here it shows some extra initiative. And another reason to like the philosophy
The "File" menu is gone. Replaced with the "Amarok" menu. You add files and media in the "Playlist Menu"
IMO they should go one more step and put the "Settings Menu" into the "Amarok" menu i.e. Amarok > Settings.
The opposite to this is another great program, SMplayer. They went silly and changed "File" menu to "Open". And in there is "Close" and "Exit". So you go... "Open" > "Close" or "Open" > "Exit". That's insane. And sorry, but yes I mean it devs.
So I think you get my drift about the "File" menu.
I strongly suggest that the KDE devs have a look at this and get some uniformity that follows Amarok's lead. (There may be others, I'm using Amarok as this example).
Simply by using the applications name instead of "File", and all the application settings and stuff goes in there as well. e.g. "Amarok" > "Settings" or "Preferences".
Ok, I've got it off my chest, I made a post.
It's just something i would like to see happen. I think it makes sense.
Wha'd'ya'reckon?
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