Development:Planning:MenuCleanup

There's a growingly coherent plan taking form at User:Froodian:MenuCleanup. Please take a look at it and leave any comments in the discussion.

This document tracks planned changes to the menu's layout for 1.1. See also the meta bug for menu cleanup, Bug 328173. We should discuss which of these actually make the cut, and which add up to menu bloat.

Current Proposals

Adding Menu Items

• Menu item for "default font size" - Bug 181712 (has patch)
• List all tabs in the Window menu (sessions) Bug 197720
  • An alternative to this is to use a palette, which is an idea I kind of like. -Froodian 23:17, 31 July 2006 (PDT)

    As do I; I think it keeps the Window menu from becoming unusable with heavy tab use, and the palette seems better tuned to scaling well across all levels of tab use. —sardisson 23:45, 31 July 2006 (PDT)

• Move tab-set bookmarking UI to Bookmarks menu Bug 151093
  • Possibly with alternate menu items? It's still a hinderance against discoverability, but it means zero bloat. —Froodian 11:54, 1 August 2006 (PDT)

    I think anything we do here should be to improve discoverability, so it if doesn't improve discoverability, we don't want to do it. (OTOH, a dedicated shortcut for "Bookmark Tab Group without showing me the dialogue" might be cool in addition. I think there's already a bug asking for "Bookmark this Page without showing me the dialogue".) —sardisson 16:33, 1 August 2006 (PDT)

• There isn't a bug for this yet, but we need to do something about the feedback link. People consistently try to use it as support, despite the fact that the page says "not to be used for support." I realized today that maybe it's because we're putting it in the Help menu. If we move Camino Feedback to the Camino menu, and add Camino Support (linking to the forum) in the Help menu, I think it'd improve the situation greatly. —Froodian 12:23, 2 August 2006 (PDT)

Moving or Renaming Menu Items

• Rename the Go menu History and rearrange - Bug 275170 and Bug 271943
  • Put "Show History" (and others?) in the Go menu
  • Move "Local Network Services" to the Bookmarks menu (and rename to Bonjour, to match the BM Manager?)
  • Move "Search the Web" to the Edit menu (with the Find options) [you're not "Go"ing to any page when selecting that, anyway]
• Move "Find" options into its own submenu - Bug 279686

  This should have been WONTFIXed back when Josh kicked it from 0.9 IMO —sardisson 23:33, 31 July 2006 (PDT)

• "Page Info" should be in the View menu - Bug 319408

Removing Menu Items

• Remove extra menu separators (Local Network Services and double History separator when there's no history) - Bug 321937

What We Need

We need to end up with a list of menus with menu items for Camino 1.1. Collecting this information and deciding about it all together makes this a feasible project in time for 1.1 given nibs' unpatchability and our review process. Items in bold differ from the current menu configuration.

Camino

• About Camino

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• Preferences...

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• Reset Camino...
• Empty Cache...

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• Services >

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• Hide Camino
• Hide Others
• Show All

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• Quit Camino

File

• New Window
• New Tab
• Open File...
• Open Location...

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• Close Window -> Close All Windows
• Close Tab
• Save As...

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• Email Page Location

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• Import Bookmarks...
• Export Bookmarks...

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• Page Setup...
• Print...

Edit

• Undo
• Redo

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• Cut
• Copy
• Paste
• Delete
• Select All

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• Get Info

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• Fill Form

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• Find in Page...
• Find Again
• Find Previous
• Use Selection for Find

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• Special Characters...

View

• Show/Hide Toolbar
• Customize Toolbar...
• Hide Bookmarks Bar

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• Show History

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• Stop Loading Page
• Reload Page -> Force Reload Page -> Reload all Tabs -> Force Reload all Tabs

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• Bigger Text
• Default Text Size
• Smaller Text

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• View Source

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• Text Encoding >

Go (History?)

• Home
• Search the Web

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• Local Network Services >

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• Back
• Forward

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• History Items

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• History Folders

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• Clear History...

Bookmarks

• Add Page to Bookmarks...
• Add Bookmark Folder...
• Show All Bookmarks

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• Bookmark Items

Window

• Minimize -> Minimize All
• Zoom -> Zoom All

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• Previous Tab
• Next Tab

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• Downloads

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• Bring All to Front

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• Windows

Help

• Camino Help

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• Camino Home Page
• Camino Feedback

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• Installed Plug-Ins

Things That Need To Be Done To This Document

• Collect individual menu item change ideas from Bug 275170, Bug 271943 and Bug 319408.
• Try to collect group consensus somehow
  • Let's work out a solid proposal here, just doing what we think should be done, then present it to #camino in a /topic-ed meeting, where it can be shined out. —Froodian 12:26, 2 August 2006 (PDT)