Re: Dropping the "Interface" tab from appearance capplet

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 28 Jul 2009, at 18:59, Matthias Clasen wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Calum Benson<Calum Benson sun com>  
> wrote:
>
> While we are looking at toolbars in applications, it would also be
> nice to make sure that most of them have  a separate preference for
> the toolbar style (defaulting to the system-wide setting), since
> changing this setting is really mostly a question of familiarity with
> the app, which means that the global setting doesn't really help much.
> IIRC, the HIG recommends that too.

It does indeed, although I'd be the first to admit that the current  
recommendation is perhaps a little clunky, which probably explains why  
only a couple of apps ever implemented it.

It's one of those things that developers really shouldn't have to  
worry about at all -- if you create a toolbar in your app, you ought  
to get the toolbar-controlling menu items for free.  But don't ask me  
how :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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