Closed Bug 200053 Opened 22 years ago Closed 22 years ago

Remove global menu items in File>New

Categories

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

defect
Not set
trivial

Tracking

(Not tracked)

VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 135804

People

(Reporter: Lil46john, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030328 Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030328 This is likely to WONTFIX, or hopefully a dupe, but I don't really think it's neccesary for Navigator> File> New> Navigator Window NavigatorTab ---------------- Message Address Book Card Composer Page I can't imagine anyone browsing, and then suddenly feeling like writing an email, making a webpage, or making a new card in the address book And also, Chatzilla doesn't have ?global items? and neither does Calendar. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce:
I'd say matter of taste. But do the menue ntries hurting someone? Message for example. In times of spaming mailto: is removed from not few sites and only the pure address written on the page or even replaced by "user at domain dot com". If you want to write a e-mail to this address, you can't click the link to pop up a new mailcompose window. So mark and CTRL-C the address, type CTRL-M or use the menu to bring up a mailcomposw window and insert the address (edit it in the latter case). You save the step calling Mailnews. I personally can't imagine wanting to write a new webpage offhand (and if so, won't save a step versus clicking the composer icon down in the status bar). But there may be people who find a reason.
They don't hurt. They clutter space. And If you readhttp://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html you can see that it says that Mozilla suffers from a bad UI, including the File>New submenus. Which means that someone else feels my way and maybe this is a DUPL Here's the quote if you can't find it. Another example of the high cost of app-suite integration is the inherently overloaded and complicated user interface (just one example out of too many: the File / New sub-menu). The target audience of the suite was never clear, and seemed to shift back and forth with prevailing business- and voluntary-contributor-driven winds. Hyatt's blog is an effective summary of the case against this approach. Simply put: great applications cannot be managed as common land, with whoever is most motivated in a particular area, or just the last to check in, determining the piecewise look and feel of the application.
This is a dupe, unfortuanly of a WONTFIX bug. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135804 ***
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 22 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Or fortunately, depending on your point of view :-P
Status: RESOLVED → VERIFIED
Product: Core → Mozilla Application Suite
Component: XP Apps: GUI Features → UI Design
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