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Originally Posted by theducks
The current Format and Insert s/b a sub-menu of Edit
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Hiding "Insert" and "Format" inside the "Edit" menu is going to hide the commands pretty deep, and will require lots of clicking for very commonly used commands.
Sigil is a document-centric application. I believe there are good reasons to arrange the menus in a way that looks familiar to what other document-centric apps look like. So lets look at the menus of two very widespread applications: LibreOffice and Word (2003, because it still had menus, and not a ribbon)
They have almost identical menus, only "Table" and "Tools" are reversed in Word - the LibreOffice version is more logical. Unless there is a good reason not to, I'd vote to stick to these menus:
- File
- Edit
- View
- Insert
- Format
- Tools (if really, really needed)
- Window
- Help
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Originally Posted by DaleDe
I really support the idea of everything available on the menubar. It makes the program easier to use by allowing the user to easily find everything. It took me a long time to discover the import HTML as it was not on the menubar but a magic right click. I hate magic right clicks, they should always be used to speed up operations, not as the only way to do things.
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True. However, this will require a small change. Currently we have
- "Add New Item" in the Text folder
- "Add New Item" in the Styles folder
- "Add Existing Item(s)..." in all folders
Because the first two actually do different things, they would have to be renamed to "Add New Text" and "Add New Stylesheet" so they could then be put inside the Insert menu. I believe this greatly enhances the discoverability of these commands. BTW, I'd personally rephrase "Add Existing Item(s)" as "Add from File(s)".
Are there any other commands that are currently hard to discover, because they're not in the menu?
Edit: I just noticed this: "Insert Chapter Break" with the cursor at the very end of the last text file actually does the same as "Add New Text". And it probably should be "Add New Chapter".