I am surprised that nobody has an opinion about this. I was worried about bike-shedding.
On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 09:23 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote: > I'd like the HIG to contain some simple suggestions for document-based > applications that are not tabbed. I'd like to avoid general conceptual > stuff about document-centric UI models, however. I'd also like to stick > to UI rather than implementation for now. > > This could deal with some inconsistencies and deal with the problem that > most of these document windows currently behave differently if opened > from the Applications menu or from the application's File menu. > > > Are there objections to the HIG saying this, in the appropriate > sections?: > > 0. An application is "document-based" if it loads and saves documents. > > 1. Document-based applications should have File/New, File/Open, > File/Save, and File/Save As menu items. > 1.1 File/New and File/Open should open new application windows (if not > using tabs), if the current document is empty and unmodified. > 1.2 File/Open should check if the chosen document is already open in the > application. If so, it should bring the window to the front. The > application may ask the user if he wishes to open a second window for > the document. Show suggested UI for that. > 1.3 The same check and UI should happen when opening a file in any other > way, such as from the file manager. > > 2. Document-based applications should have a File/Quit menu item. This > should close only the current document window. It should not close all > document windows open by the application. > 2.1 Should it be called File/Close instead? Do we want both the Close > and Quit keyboard shortcuts to activate this menu item, to avoid > annoying people with the change. > 2.2. If there are unsaved changes in the document, the application > should ask the user if they wish to save the changes. Show a suggested > UI for that, because these are currently very inconsistent. > > 3. The application should _not_ list its open document windows in a > Documents or Windows menu. > > -- [email protected] www.murrayc.com www.openismus.com _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
