Re: Some menu ideas

Jason M. Stapels (jmstapel@mtu.edu)
Wed, 13 May 1998 00:33:23 -0400 (EDT) 

I think that these are both really good ideas :). I personally i don't
like the menu order myself.

Jason Stapels

On Tue, 12 May 1998 Chris.Arguin@unh.edu wrote:

> 
> I've just got two ideas I'd like to throw out and see what people think:
> 
> Firstly, I'm vaguely annoyed that I don't have much control over how the
> items in the menu are sorted. Personally, I don't want all the directories
> first, and neither date nor alphabetical order are really good for me. I'd
> like to have the Quit menu at the bottom no matter what, for a start. 
> 
> To that end, the best I can think of is to allow names like 00_xxx, and
> when constructing the menu removing the leading ##_... It's kinda ugly,
> but allows a fair amount of control. If those names are used, we can just
> default to current behavior.
> 
> The second, and far more interesting: What about a mechanism to run a
> command before the menu is constructed. For example, someone could write a
> script file to parse out their ~/.netscape/bookmarks.html file and create
> entries so that their bookmarks would actually be under their regular 
> menu.
> 
> That's just one example, and I'm not sure it is a good one. But you get
> the idea... I think that this sort of flexibility could be pretty handy.
> 
> Anyway, do people agree with me, have better mechanisms, or perhaps good
> reasons why these ideas *shouldn't* be implemented?
> 
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