Ok, chatwindow menu's are far from perfect now, so I do support Karel's
proposal to make them better, but I do not like the menu's he proposed
either. Instead of a lengthy mail with all kinds of arguments, I'd like
to
make my own proposal how I'd do it. I'll add a few remarks at the end.
Okay, here is my proposal for the menu's:
File Edit View Actions Contact
===============================
===File===
Save As...
---
Send file...
Show received files
---
Close
===Edit===
Cut
Copy
Paste
---
Find...
Find Next
Find Previous
===View===
Chat style >
Font size >
---
* Show emoticons
* Show display plicture
===Actions===
Add a contact to this chat...
---
Send webcam
Ask to receive webcam
---
Send a nudge
===Contact===
Add to my contactlist
Block
---
Send e-mail
Send SMS
---
View history
View webcam sessions
---
View profile
View/edit notes
Properties
Remarks:
- Everything where the user has to pick a file, name a file, or will
see a
representation of files on disk is in the File menu.
- I used 'Save As...' and not 'Save', because the user will have to
name the
file!
- The close option is also in the File menu because every user will
look for
it at the bottom of this menu, because it is always there, in every
app, so
we won't do that differently.
- In the Edit menu is only what is there usually: Cut/Copy/Paste and the
commands for searching in the window content.
- In View there is anything about how things appear. The word 'view' is
to be
read as 'Appearance', as explained by Karel. He's right there. (The *
before
the last two lines of this menu just means they are on/off switches)
- The Actions menu contains everything that is about 'doing something
that has
some effect within the chat'
- The Contact menu contains everything that affects the other user in
the chat
in any way, but is not directly related to the chat itself. I did not
include
the 'Set alarm' because it is on the properties window, which is in the
menu
already.
- 'Webcam settings' is not in the menu. Maybe they can go into the
CL-menu,
but I think having it accessible from the preferences window is all we
need.
Okay, that is my idea about it. I hope it's helpful.
Harry
Op woensdag 3 mei 2006 19:02, schreef Youness Alaoui:
> On Wed, 03 May 2006 12:37:35 -0400, Ismael Asensio
>
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > 2006/5/3, Karel Demeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >> > I have just one comment. How about moving
> >> > View Chat history
> >> > view Webcam History
> >> > Into the view part?
> >>
> >> A view menu is the menu where the visual appereance of the document
> >> you're working on and the surrounding UI can be changed. It's
mostly
> >> mistaken by people with an English UI as "view" also means like
"look
> >> at", but this is not the case for all languages. I don't know
what it's
> >> in french, but the Dutch word for example can be translated as
"screen"
> >> or "image". "view chat history" is an action on a user and thus
> >> belongs to the "contact" menu imo.
> >
> > For Spanish users this distinction will be more difult to
understand,
> > as the translation for "View" menu is the verb "Ver" (litteraly "To
> > see"), rather than a name, so that seems to be an action. This is
the
> > standard translation in every desktop and programa I can remember,
but
> > it seems the Dutch people got right from the begining.
>
> humm, you mean someone made that mistake on MS DOS 1.0 and everyone
kept
> doing itwhen translating ? too bad...
>
> > I allways click on "View" to "view history" rather than on
"Actions",
> > and I allways wondered why it was on that place.
>
> same happens to me every time...
>
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