Users can find options easily if they are all in one place, or at least in one menu. When I was programming, the standard was “Tools/Options.” Another was “Edit/Preferences.”
Most of your options are on the File menu.
I realize that you may have too many options for the main Options dialog. But users will find them better if you have:
Note that the dialogs should be modal, not modeless. Your modeless dialogs create havoc when selecting windows from the taskbar. In the situation shown in this image, Windows will not work as expected (can’t close one of the instances, choosing the Options window will not take you to the Options dialog, etc.
Oh, Microsoft has consistently put out UI and dev standards over the decades, but they’re usually the only ones following them. Everyone else treats them like guidelines.
Al, we had this discussion back in the original Windows beta days, and the general consensus seemed to be that it was slightly more important to keep things close to how Scrivener for Mac is laid out than to be a perfect little Windows program (especially given the fact that the Qt framework is being used, which introduces its own sets of challenges). Yer off tiltin’ at windmills, I’m afraid.
