[imp] Menu Layout in IMP 2.3.7

[Jon Parise]

On Fri, Mar 09, 2001 at 11:35:55AM -0500, Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:

> > // Where should we display the menu? Valid values are 'top', 'left',
> > // 'bottom', and 'right'.
> > $conf['layout']['menu'] = 'left';
>
> This setting sort of went away when we killed the frames. Do people
> really want it back? It'd be fairly easy to have left or top; bottom
> and right would mean fussing with all of the files that use the
> menu.
> 
> I'd rather just keep it consistently on top now that we're
> frameless. Thoughts?

I'm almost removed that setting a half dozen times, but I kept
forgetting to bring it up for discussion on the list.  I say nuke it.

-- 
Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
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Subject: Re: [imp] Menu Layout in IMP 2.3.7

Quoting "Mark H. Degner" <mark@degner.org>:

> I think the option should be available to choose the location of the menu 
> bar. At least top or left.  I prefer the menu bar on the left, ala 2.2, I 
> think it makes the interface look cleaner.  In fact, I thought it looked so 
> good, I was quite surprised when I started to test 2.3.x and found that the 
> menu was now on top.

I'm curious what you think of Rich's argument...

-chuck

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