Re: PATCH: panel run dialog redux

[iain <iain ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-05-08 at 12:36, Calum Benson wrote:
>  To
> some extent, when you introduce a completely new control, people just
> have to learn how to use it... things like radio buttons and combo boxes
> probably weren't desperately obvious the first time you ran across them
> either.

True enough, and possibly that the arrow is the same thing as the tree
uses and it prelights will help it's "This is clickable" indication.

> (MS Windows doesn't have an official expander control, but if it did I
> wouldn't be surprised if they made the label a hyperlink... which,
> whether you consider it a gross abuse of hyperlinks or not, at least
> makes it pretty clear that you're expected to click on it.)

So long as we don't follow (like KDE3 seems to have), the abuse of the
pointing hand cursor, I won't mind too much. :)

iain
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