RFC: Remove unimplemented application menus?

Austin English austinenglish at gmail.com
Mon Mar 28 21:15:08 CDT 2011


2011/3/29 James McKenzie <jjmckenzie51 at gmail.com>:
> On 3/28/11 9:28 AM, André Hentschel wrote:
>>
>> Am 28.03.2011 17:27, schrieb James McKenzie:
>>>
>>> 2011/3/27 André Hentschel<nerv at dawncrow.de>:
>>>>
>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>> I agree.  This was proposed as a GOSC project by one of the people.
>>> There is a thread on Wine Users about these menus being
>>> 'unimplemented' and how they should be.  Would this be a good item for
>>> a bug report for an Request for Enhancement?
>>
>> IMHO no, there is no point i think.
>> PS: is this meant to be also sent to wine-devel?
>>
>>
> Are these features the program should possess or not?  These tend to be
> 'standard' menu items for most Windows programs and the underlying code does
> lie in Windows, not the individual programs and has since the Windows 3.x
> days.

Theoretically they should be there, yes, but it's not really worth the effort.

-- 
-Austin



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