Re: [Usability]Should the HIG advise use of Check and Radio menu items?

[murrayc t-online de (Murray Cumming)]

On Tue, 2002-12-10 at 21:15, Christian Rose wrote:
> > Because it shows a tick when it's active, but nothing when it is not
> > active. 
> > 
> > Well that might make sense. An untoggled Show Something menu item would
> > look like a normal menu item when the Something isn't already shown. And
> > when you look at it again you can see, from the little tick, that it is
> > already shown.
> 
> Owen had some objections to this the last time this was discussed
> (http://lists.gnome.org/archives/hig/2002-February/msg00018.html), but I
> don't know if the situation has changed.

That's not an objection. He just says that it doesn't work now. We know
that already.

> > If we decided it really is a problem then we should submit a GTK+ HIG
> > bug and just not mention it in the HIG until GTK+ can do what we want.
> 
> Submitting a GTK+ bug report is an excellent idea.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101884

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