Don't hide menus

Daniel xracoonx at gmx.de
Fri Oct 13 19:49:05 UTC 2023


On 2023-10-13 17:44, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 13/10/2023 à 17:08, Daniel a écrit :
>   > I agree that the menus of these apps are complex. But that might be in
>> their nature. I guess the Ribbon was a (maybe controversial) attempt 
>> to solve this problem. But I think LyX with its hidden menus is 
>> actually worse to figure out. I am still discovering (otherwise) 
>> hidden menu entries and I have been using LyX for quite some time now.
> 
> What we could provide is a HUD, like Apple's Cmd-space, but for menu 
> entries. We had that in Ubuntu in the old days.
> 
> I can try to provide the backend for that if someone is ready to do the 
> nice interface.
> 
> JMarc

Could you explain what you mean? Some kind of search function? How does 
that help if one does not know what to search for? What is the 
difference to the command buffer?

Daniel



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