Hmmm - I was just looking at the menu structure to the Totally MDI UI, and it occurred to me that there is only really a need to show Things (Customers, Suppliers, Invoices, Emails etc) and Applets.
An Applet can process Things, so there isn't a need to have the UI cluttered up with menu choices to start this applet or that applet. This is a better design too, because then the administrator of Totally can decide to only allow certain applets to be installed on each end-users PC (in the applet-cache folder). If it's not there, they can't even see it. Yes, much better.
The only menu items that a end-user should see are those that allow them a bit of personalisation as to how their copy of the Totally UI looks in terms of background colours/images etc.
The only applets needed on each workstation are those that let the user choose which Thing or Applet to work with.
The current Things applet is called InternalMenu (I had this wild idea of being able to use the database schema to support Ingenieum menus) so began with that. It probably needs to be called something else now that I've had a bit of a think about it.
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