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6. MENU AND SHORTCUTS
Figure 8: The Menu is opened
The width of the Menu bar is dynamic; it depends on the number of menu items and the length of the words. The
maximum number of menu items is six. The preferred maximum number of menu pane items is also six. However, if
there are more than six items in a menu pane, little arrows appear to indicate continuity on the right-hand side of the
menu pane. An arrow indicates the location of the cascade menu containing the unseen commands.
Figure 9: Menu items with arrows
The contents of the Menu, including Shortcuts, should be identical in all devices on the same platform.
- Include Shortcuts (ctrl + key, shift + ctrl + key) in the Menu; otherwise, the user will not be able to find them (see
chapter 18.3). Shortcuts with Chr key combinations cannot be included in the Menu but some applications might
use them. In other words, separate commands reside in the Menu and a Shortcut is activated via the keyboard.
- Menus should be static
- Unavailable menu items should be dimmed. If the user tries to select a command which is unavailable, the
error case must be indicated to the user via an Information Banner, e.g. ‘‘Command is not available.’’ The very
same indication should be used when the user tries to access a command which is unavailable by using a
Shortcut key combination.
- All views of an application should have the same Menu unless the views are radically different
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