[josm-dev] JOSM main menu - behaviour inconsistencies

[Ulf Lamping]

Ulf Lamping schrieb:
> I've took a look at how the JOSM main menu behaves in terms of usability.
>   
I've just checked in the first run of "usability cleanup" of main menu 
and default toolbar (I guess there's still a lot to do).

main menu:
- add keyboard shortcuts to the menu item texts (this makes recognizing 
shortcuts a lot easier)
- move "Connection" items to File menu (as Fred suggested)
- make "View" visible by default (as all the other menus)
- resort "Tools" menu items (most used items first - this order might 
need discussion)

default toolbar:
- remove "new" item (very rarely used IMHO)
- use the same sequence as used in the menu


Next step will be to "grey out" the menu items that are currently not 
usable (e.g. disable "Save" if no file was loaded). This makes it much 
easier to "browse" the functionality and more pleasant as clicking on a 
menu item just to be told: "Please load some data first" is annoying and 
time consuming.


I've tested the changes, but I might have introduced new bugs - please 
report. Unless you compile for yourself, the changes will be available 
with the next nightly build I guess ...

Regards, ULFL


P.S: @Frederik: Is the "author" problem still a problem?