[Qgis-developer] QGIS menu item

[Nathan Woodrow]

File was renamed to Project for a few reasons, mainly for better context
awareness and external non file based projects.  No plans to change that as
I think that works well.

On Tue, 10 Jan 2017 6:11 pm Bernhard Ströbl <bernhard.stroebl at jena.de>
wrote:

> Hi Nathan,
>
> I think the original idea was to have something like a "File" menu, that
> many applications have, too. Although it is not named "File". Anyway
> IMHO it is a good idea, because many users get general and project's
> settings mixed up and I would not favor renaming "Project" to "File"
> either.
> Going into detail: shouldn't "Project Properties..." go into the
> "Project" menu then (and be renamed to "Properties")?
> "Snapping Options..." are currently placed in settings, but are a
> project's setting. Should go in the "Project" menu then, too.
>
> Bernhard
>
> Am 10.01.2017 um 04:11 schrieb Nathan Woodrow:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I would like to propose a new QGIS menu item that in the menu before the
> > Project item.  This menu item will contain all the stuff in the Settings
> > Menu, Exit QGIS, and some of the stuff from the Help menu like About
> >
> > Motivation:  A lot of application have a "Application" menu with
> > application-wide settings, etc . I think this would make it clear that
> > anything in this menu is related to the application itself and not the
> > project.  Having a Settings menu just floating in the middle of the menu
> > bar seems strange to me now.
> >
> > Example
> >
> > Inline image 1
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > - Nathan
> >
> >
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