[josm-dev] Tools menu too long when plugins installed

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

Ulf Lamping wrote:
>> This is quite common with other software that uses plugins.
> 
> You want something like the two filter menus in the Gimp, which is in 
> fact just bad UI design. 

I was thinking about the "Tools" menu in Firefox where each "Add-on" you 
install gets an entry.

> It creates a mess to find a function in the 
> menu you want to use.

I agree that with the current JOSM plugin landscape, where we have lots 
of "one-trick pony" plugins, this might seem strange. But I'd love to 
see some consolidation in the plugins so that we don't have 5 plugins 
that do closely related stuff but know nothing of each other.

> Sure, every solution has it's drawbacks. But what's the users interest? 
> To know which menu item is caused by which plugin, or to intuitively 
> find a functionality where a user expects it.

If you have just asked for something on the list, and people have told 
you "install the XYZ plugin, then you can do what you want", I think it 
would not be too much to ask from the user to go to the "Plugins/XYZ" 
menu. Indeed this provides a clear visual clue that the XYZ plugin is 
indeed installed and active.

Bye
Frederik

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