non-english menus on OS X

Thierry Arbellot thierry.arbellot at wanadoo.fr
Fri Sep 26 12:58:01 EDT 2003


Guten Abend Klaus,

Same problem in French, the "Preference" line isn't removed is the 
second menu isn't named "Edit" (name and label)
I tried to change the label within a script in preOpenStack or 
openStack handler, as a workaround, but it doesn't work :-(

Regards,

Thierry.

On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 02:34 PM, Klaus Major wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> short question...
>
> From the "What's new" of RR 2.1:
>
>> - OS X applications now automatically delete the last two lines in 
>> the second menu of a stack's menu bar,
>
> Looks like this ONLY appeals if the name of the scond menu = "Edit", 
> which definitively sucks in a
> german/french/dutch etc... application ;-)
>
> In that case the "Preferences" stays part of THAT "Bearbeiten" (= 
> german for edit) menu...
> and is not moved to the app-menu...
>
> "Help" (Hilfe) and "About" seem to work...
>
>> if the last line starts with "Preferences". This is to prevent 
>> duplication of the "Preferences" menu item in
>> the OS X Application menu. (Normally, the second menu is the Edit 
>> menu,
>
> !!! Normally not in non-english speaking countries...
>
>> and the last two menu items
>> are a separator line and "Preferences".) This lets you use the same 
>> menu bar for all platforms without
>> breaking user-interface guidelines for OS X, which call for the 
>> "Preferences" menu item to be in the
>> Applications menu and not the File menu.
>
> Can anyone confirm that?
>
> Or give a hint what i am doing wrong?
>
> Thanks a lot in advance...
>
>
> Regards
>
> Klaus Major
> klaus at major-k.de
> www.major-k.de
>
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