List menus in defined order

[Milo Ivir]

Inkscape 0.92 / Mac OS X 10.11.6

At present, localized versions (in my case croatian), keep changing the order of items in menus/submenus alphabetically. When making changes to translations, items change their position, thus making it hard to retrieve it.

ToDo:
Define the order of *all* menus/submenus items for the *standard/basic package* of inksacape AND use this ordering for all localizations. I've encountered this problem mostly in the "filters" and "extensions" menus.

"Non-standard" filters/extensions could be listed after a separator line. These items wouldn't necessarily be ordered identically accross localizations.

Keeping a certain order of menu items, helps:
- improve UI consitency accross localizations
- (experienced) users to choose correct items, even if the don't understand a certain language

[Hachmann (marenhachmann)]

I think this is already possible (and done for master) with the 'menus.xml' file in /share/inkscape/ui.

Can you test this with Inkscape's development version?

[Milo Ivir (milotype)]

You are right about the menu and 1st level submenu for all *BUT* filters end extensions.

I've realized just now, that even in the english version of inkscape, submenu items for "filters" and "extensions" are not sorted specifically, but simply alphabetically. So my guess is, that alphabetic ordering in these submenus is on purpose and part of the concept.

But maybe it would improve the GUI, if at least the 1st level submenus for filters and extensions would be sorted specifically. The filters and extensions themselves could still be sorted alphabetically within the appropriate <submenu _name=""> item.

just a thought. i'm no GUI expert ...

[grey tomorrow (gtomorrow)]

Closing because INVALID: works as intended.

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