From: Alan Horkan (horkana@maths.tcd.ie)
Date: Wed Sep 17 2003 - 14:04:16 EDT
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003, Pedro Sanchez wrote:
> Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:44:39 -0400
> From: Pedro Sanchez <psanchez@nortelnetworks.com>
> To: abiword-user@abisource.com
> Subject: Table support, really?
>
> I open a new document and right away click on
> Table-->Insert-->Table-->Insert which is supposed to give me a 5x2
> BTW, the command sequence seems awkward to me. Table-->New would be
> better I believe.
While I agree that the table menu should not have all those submenus we
would most likely continue to copy the defacto standard word processor
and have Table, Insert Table.
Having a submenu for as few as three items is generally not recommended (I
think it might have been the Apple User Interface guidelines rather than
the Gnome Guidelines where I read this).
The extra clicks add up and get really annoying if you are repeating the
same task a lot.
Abiword has a far more flexible table system, allowing you to do things
like insert a row before as well as after, and if more things were added
to the Table menu (and they will inevitably be in the 2.2 branch) things
would get very crowded.
I filed a bug report on this bug Dom closed it, he doesn't hate submenus
as much as I do.
http://bugzilla.abisource.com/show_bug.cgi?id=5092
- Alan
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