Rearrange menus

[Bertrand Rousseau]

Currently, GTG has 4 menus: Tasks, Edit, View, PLugins, Help.

Recently, with the merge of the preference dialog, the Plugins menu has disappeared (maybe just temporarily), which makes me think: shouldn't re-think menus a little. There are some issues with the current configuration:

 - "Tasks" menu is inadequate for actions such "Quit"
 - "Tasks" menu action feel much more like the content of the "Edit" menu, since those actions are related to task edition
 - "Plugins" focus is too broad: plugins actions should be added to an adequate menu, or at least show under a "Tools" menu, which would feel more adequate than "plugins".

So I would suggest this:

 - Move task edition actions from "Tasks" menu in "Edit" menu
 - Rename "Tasks" menu in "File" (because it's the norm, although I would prefer something that makes more sense)
 - Provide a "Tools" menu to replace the "Plugins" menu

Regarding the "Tools" menu, I would suggest that as long as it doesn't sport always-enabled (i.e. non-plugins) tools, it should be hidden when it is empty.

[Bryce Harrington (bryce)]

Looking at the existing plugins as well as ones proposed in the bug tracker, they fall into three broad categories:

1. Import/Export
2. Integration with external services (RTM, Hamster, etc.)
3. Advanced gtg customizations

#1 kind of blurs into #2 at the edges, and #2 into #3, but this might be useful for deciding on categorization.

[Chris Johnston (cjohnston)]

Do we still want to do this?

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

There's a reason why we don't have a "file" menu and I don't want to create one. I'm not convinced by the current proposition.

I mark this as wishlist and "new" since I don't believe there's any consensus on that right now.

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

(please reopen if it appears that I'm just missing the consensus here)

[Luca Invernizzi (invernizzi)]

Why don't we just get rid of the menu and we use an icon (like chromium)? That way, we will just have a short list of possible actions, separated by well... gtk.Separators. we don't need to name them, and it's more compact.

[Paul Natsuo Kishimoto (khaeru)]

Luca, that's a brilliant idea. I use Back In Time (http://backintime.le-web.org) which also has a similar layout.

[Luca Invernizzi (invernizzi)]

If this idea is ok with everybody, we can switch back the bug to Confirmed and see how to do it.

[Lionel Dricot (ploum-deactivatedaccount)]

Does it means that we have to rewrite existing plugins?