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Originally Posted by user_none
I've put the add blank / existing file commands into a sub menu in the File menu.
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I don't think that is a good idea. The "File" menu usually relates to the whole document you're working on, not to parts of it which just happen to be files themselves. E.g.: "Insert Image" is not part of the File menu (and shouldn't), even though it pops up a "file open"-dialog, and operates on that file. It is an editing command, and thus should go in the Edit menu (or, if that is split into multiple menus, the Insert menu or submenu).
Adding a new section to a book is an editing command, and actually does almost the same as the "Insert Chapter Break" command. Both technically create a file inside the ZIP archive, but more importantly, they change the current document.
For all practical purposes, that first menu could be renamed from "File" to "Book". So any command that doesn't work with a book doesn't really belong there.
Good references:
(please take look at the gnome guidelines, which is the only place I could find that specifically says when to use an Insert menu (see 4.4.2.3), and gives a list of standard menu items that should go into such a menu (see 4.4.4), including the "Insert From File..." item.
GNOME Human Interface Guidelines
MacOs X 10.7 Human Interface Guidelines
Windows (7) User Experience Interaction Guidelines
unfortunately, the
KDE Human Interface Guidelines are a joke.
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Originally Posted by user_none
h1-6 have already been added to the Format menu.
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Meh. I'm late to the party
