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> sensibly grouped That joke seriously made my day! Where is the global settings/properties menu for Firefox? Photoshop? Eclipse? Premiere Pro? Android Studio?
by franga2000 7y ago
> sensibly grouped
That joke seriously made my day! Where is the global settings/properties menu for Firefox? Photoshop? Eclipse? Premiere Pro? Android Studio?
Between those 5 apps, some of the same category or even same vendor, you can find that one very ubiquitous entry under: Tools, File, Window, Edit, File but there's 4 of them.
- eska 7y agoSo instead of replacing the entire menu paradigm with ribbons, how about just grouping things better, wouldn't that solve the problem? On Mac OS for example the "Preferences" item is always in the same location and has the same shortcut, throughout first party and third party apps.
- wtallis 7y agoYeah, I think at least half the problem is that among those 5 cross-platform applications, only some of them try to respect the native UI standards on all platforms.
- jml7c5 7y agoGlobal settings never standardized in one place for some reason. Everything else is well-organized, but for whatever reason an "Application" menu never became common. It's a shame Microsoft didn't promote such a menu in their own software back in the day.
- blackandblue 7y ago> Where is the global settings/properties see? that's part of what i was trying to say. you say settings, i think cog, hamburger menu, or even three dots. it's so hard lately because designers want to innovate and make their UI different.