Concept for main menu and navigation improvement

Why?

We got a lot of feedback from Qt Creator Survey 2024 that Qt Creator's menus are not well organised and due to big amount of items  finding wanted menu options can be  difficult especially new users. Menus  should be reorganised, recategorised and some menu items could be located to Editor instead of a menu.

What?

• As a Developer I want to Find Menus  in expected locations
  • Users will be able to intuitively find the menu they are looking for and thus find wanted functionalities.
•  As a developer I assume that menu names  and menu  contents follow common standards
  • Users expect to find  certain items for example from File, Edit, view, Window etc menus. Avoid changing those items to other locations
  •  Use clear, specific and familiar wording.

• As a developer I want to easily find what I need during my current task
  • Correct items  in correct menus: Re-organize menu items: long menus and many submenu levels are are slow to browse and may cause confusion.
  • Icons, and limited use of colour may help with comprehension or differension of unfamiliar options and aid scannability.. Icons are not a must, clear text optiions properly categorized a re more important.

• 4. As a developer I want to  avoid browsing multilevel cascading  menus
  • A simple dropdown menu works well for one-tier navigation but becomes frustrating with two tiers.. More than 2  causes more problems, often result in errors where users "fall out" of the menu, closing it entirely, or accidentally selecting the wrong item.

How?
bench marking other applications, user feedback, re-organize