Re: Style guide for menu item for modeless dialogs?

[John Sullivan <sullivan eazel com>]

on 5/31/00 12:23 AM, Jon K Hellan at hellan@acm.org wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Is there a style guideline for the following:
> 
> What happens to a menu item which launches a modeless dialog,
> when the dialog is already up? Assuming that the dialog can only be
> launched once, that is.
> 
> There are two possibilities:
> 
> 1. Make the menu item insensitive (grayed out).
> 
> 2. Let it stay sensitive, and raise the dialog to the top of the stack
> when pressed.
> 
> I think I find 2 most useful, but is there an existing guideline?

I don't know if there's an existing guideline in the Gnome world, but (2) is
most definitely absolutely certainly the right thing to do.

John