Re: Gtk2::ComboBox with a dummy entry

["A. Pagaltzis" <pagaltzis gmx de>]

* Matthew Braid <ptkperl mdb id au> [2007-01-29 05:05]:
> Essentially, I want the CB to always show 'Choose an extension
> to add', but have a list of valid extensions pop up when its
> clicked that does _not_ include 'Choose an extension to add'
 
Sounds like bad UI design to me. You are aware how badly this
violates user expectations? Is there a really important reason
to make this control behave so gratuitously differently from all
other comboboxes the users have seen before?

“Choose an extension to add” should be a label, not hacked into
the control itself. Actually it would be “Extension to add”,
since “Choose an” is redundant; the fact that there is a combobox
is inherently a prompt to make a choice so this fact needn’t be
pointed out separately.

Regards,
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