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State "button" in Customize is not a button
From: |
Drew Adams |
Subject: |
State "button" in Customize is not a button |
Date: |
Fri, 6 Jan 2006 13:18:04 -0800 |
The State button in Customize is not a button but a pulldown list
(menu). That is, it opens a menu; it does not effect an action. It
should not look like the other buttons. A pulldown menu label
("button") often has a small triangle next to the text, to indicate
that it is a pulldown menu.
In general, however, pulldown menus are not a good UI idea. Why?
Because it is too easy to not notice that they are menus (i.e
represent choices). It is a bad idea for the closed state of a menu to
represent one of the possible menu choices.
In GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600)
of 2005-06-26 on NONIQPC
X server distributor `Microsoft Corp.', version 5.1.2600
configured using `configure --with-gcc
(3.3) --cflags -I../../jpeg-6b-3/include -I../../libpng-1.2.8/include -I../.
./tiff-3.6.1-2/include -I../../xpm-nox-4.2.0/include -I../../zlib-1.2.2/incl
ude'
- State "button" in Customize is not a button,
Drew Adams <=
- Re: State "button" in Customize is not a button, Bill Wohler, 2006/01/07
- Re: State "button" in Customize is not a button, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/01/07
- RE: State "button" in Customize is not a button, Drew Adams, 2006/01/07
- Re: State "button" in Customize is not a button, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/01/08
- RE: State "button" in Customize is not a button, Drew Adams, 2006/01/08
- Re: State "button" in Customize is not a button, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/01/10
- RE: State "button" in Customize is not a button, Drew Adams, 2006/01/10
- Re: State "button" in Customize is not a button, Richard M. Stallman, 2006/01/11
- RE: State "button" in Customize is not a button, Drew Adams, 2006/01/11