Sonny Software

Hi there,

I have a few remarks on the Link To menu:

- If you use the "unlink"-command from the menu Bookends is not linked any more to any application. This is logical but not that useful I think. I would suggest the unlink command to directly switch back to the default word processor.

Btw: After I switched to Mellel (using the OS ways to do that) and back again to Bookends, then Mellel is again linked to Bookends.

- The Link To menu is very crowded while lots of applications are running. So I would find it very useful if the applications were sorted alphabetically.

- There are lots off applications in the menu which can't even work with text, so I would like to through them out of the menu for all times. One possibilty to manage this would be to have a pref for that, but that would blow up Bookends for a relatively small effect. So another possibilty would be to make the menu entries movable by command-mouse-movement (as you can move menu items out of the menu within the Finder). After there are moved apps the menu could contain a command "reset menu" which would be the one and only GUI change besides the menu would be much more clearer.

What do you think?

Hi,

Unlinking to any app is useful for people who want to turn it off temporarily and then relink. Otherwise you'd have to go to Preferences to unlink, then go back to relink, and I doubt anyone thinks that would be a good idea.

As for switching out and back, Bookends will reestablish the link, because it thinks that the temporary unlink is over.

Sorting them isn't a bad idea. Removing ones you don't want is more complicated, as you noted. I'm not aware of a mechanism for removing items in a menu in the Finder. How does that work?

Jon
Sonny Software

Jon wrote:Sorting them isn't a bad idea. Removing ones you don't want is more complicated, as you noted. I'm not aware of a mechanism for removing items in a menu in the Finder. How does that work?

Maybe my text was not very clear. I don't think it is possible to remove text menu entries. But at the right edge of the Finder menu there are symbols of system-preferences and applications. If you hold down the command-key you can grab one of them, move it out of the menu bar and it is removed.

My suggestion only meant to adapt this already known behaviour but of course as I'm not a programmer I don't know the difficulties this will produce.