Re: The HIG and Open a Copy

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Martin Sevior wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 11:37:38 +1100
> From: Martin Sevior <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au>
> To: Alan Horkan <horkana@maths.tcd.ie>
> Cc: abiword-dev <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
> Subject: Re: The HIG and Open a Copy
>
> On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 23:16 +0000, Alan Horkan wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005, Ryan Pavlik wrote:
> >
> > <snip> please trim messages a little </snip>

> I have never used "Open Copy" and am frankly not sure what it does. When
> Dom implemented it there was no widespread disapproval.

> I think I like the recent files in the "file" menu.

I'm reasonably sure MS Word even offers a preference on whether or not to
put this in a submenu. If you have more than the default four items I
think it looks awful to have them directly in the menu and as I said
before I like to keep as long a very long document history if at all
possible.

> I think that as long as Rob is prepared to do the work to revert the
> changes as we decide on them there is no great harm done.

Rob seems like a reasonable person and I'm fairly sure there is room for a
more radical approach but I've always appreciated the inclusive attitude
here that I have not seen in other projects and I'd hate to see that kind
of attitude disappear.

> The major damage will be to Rob as his various ideas get rejected. I
> personally find it harder to see my work reverted rather than not
> implemented, but everyone is different.

I feel the same about my bug reports. Sorry Rob, I do realise how
annoying this must be.

- Alan
Received on Tue Feb 22 20:16:19 2005