RFC: Remove unimplemented application menus?

[André Hentschel]

Am 27.03.2011 13:50, schrieb Francois Gouget:
> 
> Some Wine programs, winefile in particular, have a lot of unimplemented 
> menus. That is you can see the menu entry but clicking on it only gives 
> you a 'Not yet implemented' error dialog (or does nothing in the case 
> of iexplore). For instance just for the first two winefile menus none 
> of the following are implemented:
> 
>   File -> Print...
>   File -> Associate...
>   File -> Search...
>   File -> Select Files...
>   Disk -> Share as...
>   Disk -> Remove Share...
>   Disk -> Select Drive...
> 
> 
> I think such a situation is bad:
>  * Having tons of unimplemented menus looks amateurish.
>  * It's very confusing. You see tons of menus except over 50% of them 
>    don't work. So it makes the GUI more complex with no benefit.
>  * I suspect most of these menus have been unimplemented for years 
>    so there is little hope of seeing them improve any time soon.
>  * For a number of them it's questionable whether it makes sense to 
>    implement them in Wine at all as they correspond to tasks that 
>    better belong to the native system facilities (Share as for 
>    instance).
>  * I doubt they serve any significant compatibility purpose.
>  * In the mean time they generate more work for translators and 
>    translation reviewers.
>  * It generates more work for anyone checking whether the GUI is 
>    consistent / follows human interface guidelines (wrt. ellipses for 
>    instance).
> 
> So I propose to simply remove unimplemented menus. When / if someone 
> ever decides to implement some of the corresponding functionality, 
> adding the corresponding code and GUI bits back should not be too hard.
> 
> Objections?
> 

Good Idea, at least for the year old stub menus (like winefile).
For recently added, with hope to see them implemented in the next time (maybe gsoc), we should wait some month (e.g. iexplore) IMO.

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Best Regards, André Hentschel