200053 - Remove global menu items in File>New

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 135804

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Pham]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030328
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4a) Gecko/20030328

This is likely to WONTFIX, or hopefully a dupe, but I don't really think it's
neccesary for
Navigator>
File>
New>
Navigator Window
NavigatorTab
----------------
Message
Address Book Card
Composer Page

I can't imagine anyone browsing, and then suddenly feeling like writing an
email, making a webpage, or making a new card in the address book

And also, Chatzilla doesn't have ?global items? and neither does Calendar.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Christian Eyrich]

I'd say matter of taste. But do the menue ntries hurting someone?

Message for example. In times of spaming mailto: is removed from not few sites
and only the pure address written on the page or even replaced by "user at
domain dot com".
If you want to write a e-mail to this address, you can't click the link to pop
up a new mailcompose window. So mark and CTRL-C the address, type CTRL-M or use
the menu to bring up a mailcomposw window and insert the address (edit it in the
latter case). You save the step calling Mailnews.

I personally can't imagine wanting to write a new webpage offhand (and if so,
won't save a step versus clicking the composer icon down in the status bar). But
there may be people who find a reason.

Comment 2

[Pham]

They don't hurt. They clutter space. And If you
readhttp://www.mozilla.org/roadmap.html you can see that it says that Mozilla
suffers from a bad UI, including the File>New submenus. Which means that someone
else feels my way and maybe this is a DUPL

Here's the quote if you can't find it.

Another example of the high cost of app-suite integration is the inherently
overloaded and complicated user interface (just one example out of too many: the
File / New sub-menu). The target audience of the suite was never clear, and
seemed to shift back and forth with prevailing business- and
voluntary-contributor-driven winds. Hyatt's blog is an effective summary of the
case against this approach. Simply put: great applications cannot be managed as
common land, with whoever is most motivated in a particular area, or just the
last to check in, determining the piecewise look and feel of the application.

Comment 3

[Torben]

This is a dupe, unfortuanly of a WONTFIX bug.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 135804 ***

Comment 4

[[e-mail]]

Or fortunately, depending on your point of view :-P