On Sep 15, 2014, at 9:39 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > This is a poll addressed to people using Qt and/or KDE applications. > > I'd like to get some feedback about what kind of menu organisation you would > expect or like to see in those applications. > > Currently, the OS X Application menu is populated with items such as About, > Preferences and Quit using text-based heuristics. The first menu item that is > created through Qt (and KDE) functions with a name that matches a relevant > pattern is put in the Application menu. With pure Qt applications this > usually works out pretty fine, but there are more than enough KDE > applications where the wrong item gets put in the Application menu just > because it's created before the right item. And that can lead to (unpleasant) > surprises. I'm working on a workaround for that, but the best solution would > be to address this in Qt. > > Please think of your favourite Qt and/or KDE applications. How important is > it for you that About and (in particular) the Preferences menu item are in > the Application menu rather than in the place where they'd show on other > platforms (Linux, MS Windows)?
You don't need a poll for this. There are OS X interface conventions (including menu arrangement) that programs should conform to in order to be good OS X citizens. _______________________________________________ macports-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/macports-users
