The 'remove-app-menu' branch has been merged into master, and removed. The app 
menu is history, and builds from master will have the awesome new menu 
structure☺

Of course, there's always room for improvement--all comments welcome!

Happy mailing,

Peter

On 07/20/2018 07:46:51 PM Fri, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
Hi All!

Some time ago, Balsa started using an 'app menu'. In desktops that implement 
it, such as GNOME 3, you access it from the top bar, but in other desktops it's 
just another menu at the start of the regular menu bar (I believe). As 
discussed in the attached, abandoning app menus has been proposed as a goal, 
and to date I've seen no opposition to the proposal, so going along with it 
would help to keep Balsa a conforming GNOME app, and would probably simplify 
life for non-GNOME users.

Balsa's current app menu mainly took over items from the 'File' menu, like 
'Preferences", but also subsumed an earlier 'Settings' menu. Having both a 
'Settings' menu and a 'Preferences' item on the 'File' menu was always confusing, 
and making them separate items on the app menu did nothing to clarify the situation.

So this is a great opportunity to revisit Balsa's menu structure! The GNOME 
Human Interface Guidelines 2.2.3 (linked in the attached) have some suggestions 
about 'Standard Menus'; they appear to be targeted toward document-focused apps 
rather than e-mail clients, but their spirit is something we could incorporate 
in a new structure for Balsa.

Looking forward to a vigorous discussion!

Peter

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