Preferred GUI menu navigation representation

[Will Simpson]

On 5/9/07, Philip Wyett <philip.wyett at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is there a preferred method for indicating menu navigation in the xml
> docs?
>
> Two popular methods are e.g for navigation to 'Applications -> Accessories
> -> Terminal' are:
>
> 1. &terminal;
>
> e.g.
>
> <para>The terminal can be found and started at &terminal;</para>
>
> 2. <menuchoice> etc.
>
> e.g.
>
> <para>The terminal can be found and started at
>     <menuchoice>
>       <guimenu>Applications</guimenu>
>       <guisubmenu>Accessories</guisubmenu>
>       <guimenuitem>Terminal</guimenuitem>
>     </menuchoice>
> </para>
>
> Yours thoughts and preferences would be welcome.
>
> Regards
>
> Phil
>
>
The first method is preferred. The &terminal; refers to a section in the
file ../../lib/gnome-menus-C.ent. This file contains all or most of the menu
mappings in Ubuntu. This is done so if an item is moved from one menu to
another the change is trivial. Otherwise every instance of a reference to
the menu item would have to searched for an changed.

Will
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