Menu restructuring

[Jon Homan]

I kinda like this idea, especially if the goal of the menu restructuring
is to allow for a slimmer window and not cut off any menu items. I have
to say, that mockup doesn't look too bad.

Also, the Help portion could use some sprucing up, imo. Why not link to
the FAQ on pidgin.im? More importantly, but off-topic, some of the links
on the Help page lead to broken links.

Jon

Evil Dennis Ristuccia wrote:
> Sean Egan wrote:
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> What do you think of this proposal:
>>
>> Help > Online Help is killed.
>> Help > Debug Window is moved to Tools > Debug Window
>> Help > About is moved to Buddies > About Pidgin
>> OR
>> Buddies is renamed to Pidgin and Help > About is moved to Pidgin > About Pidgin
>> (Buddies isn't an entirely accurate name)
>>
>> The allow_shrink property of the buddy list window is unset, making
>> the minimum window size equal to the width of the menu with only
>> Buddies (or Pidgin), Accounts, and Tools.
>>   
>>     
>
> Why not combine Tools and Buddies, and condense them if you're looking 
> to save space?
>
> http://pidgin.dennisr.net/blist-menu-restructuring-1.png
>
> Show and Add can be their own expanding menus to save some additional 
> space..
>
> In my opinion we shouldn't kill off the help menu.. However, we *SHOULD* 
> put something that _is_ helpful in there. If we can't manage to pull 
> that off then it should be killed. Help is not very "helpful" currently..
>
>