bug#56508: Suggestions for the "Help" menu

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2022 09:04:53 -0500
> Cc: 56508@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > <Shrug> it's a matter of personal opinion, so let's not argue about
> > that.
> 
> Sure.
> 
> > The important question is: does that single menu item do any harm?
> 
> Not that one item in and of itself, no, but overall the "Help" menu does
> feel overwhelming.  Anything we could remove from it would help, and to
> my mind this is an obvious candidate.

The Help menu is supposed to be overwhelming, and that is a Good Thing!

> > Our current stopgap is to tell more in the help-echo (which you for
> > some reason ignore in your criticism).
> 
> The help-echo and the menu item text could just switch places, and it
> would be an improvement, IMHO.

No, the help-echo text is too long for a menu item.  The challenge is
to come up with a shorter phrase that basically says the same.

> (FWIW, I couldn't find anything about "Mule" in the Emacs manual outside
> of "ps-mule.el" and `(emacs) MS-DOS'.)

There are hits in ELisp.