Alan Jay Weiner wrote:
> Just for discussion and thought...
>
> This is one of the things I utterly despise about the Mac - the constant
> changing of menus...
>
> I have a tendency to learn where things are, and I get confused when they're not
> there. (uh, right now I can't find the leash for the dog... :)
>
> I greatly prefer things be greyed out - but even more so, *tell me WHY* I can't
> do that right now.
Many people do, actually. But that's a conflicting issue:
If you always show ALL commands, but grey out the ones you can't use
then there will be so many commands there that you won't be able to find
the one(s) you need - it will be too overloaded.
> So (when I become King...) the menu would show "Edit Conflict" but be grey (or
> otherwise visually modified as to be "not valid right now") and when I click on
> it anyway it would pop up a dialog saying "This is to merge files when there is
> a conflict between the repository version and your baseline. You do not have
> such a conflict with file Foo.C"
Ahem: GUI guidelines request that a menu entry greyed out must not be
clickable!
Stefan
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Received on Sat Jul 24 11:01:52 2004