Path: csiph.com!v102.xanadu-bbs.net!xanadu-bbs.net!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Gregory Ewing Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Subject: Re: Python and IDEs [was Re: Python 3 is killing Python] Date: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 12:04:56 +1200 Lines: 12 Message-ID: References: <87zjga4j4v.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <53c57bae$0$9505$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87iomy4ciy.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <53c5f6dc$0$9505$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <87egxl4zq8.fsf@elektro.pacujo.net> <53c73ff0$0$29897$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <9ef930a0-5a41-4a20-a13a-003c9e8246fe@googlegroups.com> <53c9655a$0$9505$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <368c1e4f-9328-445b-9876-9f26560a50c2@googlegroups.com> <53ca1e27$0$9505$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com> <20140801131035.f672ac56af3aa4eda5d36dcd@gmx.net> <53DBCB7B.80704@schwertberger.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net 4wafFtxfbawxxc2Ggtg9awJTyDByT7G7N3FAzRt58mOQ6z2GEg Cancel-Lock: sha1:Hh/9KGwFeD2SZXTDJcLu53eR/IM= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (Macintosh/20050711) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:75567 MRAB wrote: > RISC OS didn't have a menu bar at the top of each window either; its > menus were all pop-up. You didn't have to keep flicking the mouse at > all! The main reason for having a menu bar is discoverability. The idea is that you can browse through the menus and get a feel for what commands are potentially available to you. That's not so easy to do when everything is hidden in contextual menus. -- Greg