[Qgis-developer] QGIS menu item

[DelazJ]

Hi all,
Just to point that on MacOS, there's already a QGIS menu at first position.
See
http://docs.qgis.org/2.14/en/docs/user_manual/introduction/qgis_gui.html#qgis

Harrissou

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2017-01-10 9:20 GMT+01:00 Bernhard Ströbl <bernhard.stroebl at jena.de>:

> What I was trying to say is that many applications have a "File" menu at
> the first position. As QGIS is not really following that scheme (because
> the menu is named "Project" and I totally agree with not having it renamed
> to "File") I support your idea of the QGIS menu.
>
> Bernhard
>
> Am 10.01.2017 um 09:15 schrieb 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
>> <mailto: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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