Python and IDEs [was Re: Python 3 is killing Python]

[Dietmar Schwertberger]

Am 03.08.2014 02:04, schrieb Gregory Ewing:
> 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.
This was not a  problem with the RISC OS menu concept.
Only some menu items were depending on the mouse position.
Actually the menu items were easier to discover as the non-applicable
items were not hidden but greyed out.

Regards,

Dietmar