Re: [Nautilus-list] FW: Preview Release Comments

[Ross Burton <r burton 180sw com>]

On 15 Jan 2001 10:50:52 +0000, Calum Benson wrote:
> > Many word processors will work in a similar fashion.  If you have a paragraph
> > with a line bolded and a nother line italicized, and you select all the text,
> > both the bold and italics will appear greyed out.  Basically, if an entire
> > selection matches a property, then that property is displayed, if not, it is
> > greyed, but you can click it and change the whole selection's properties.
> > (Being greyed is supposed to mean mean not editable so maybe a different color?)
> 
> Yuck, which word processors work like that?  If I make a selection like
> that, I'd want (and get, in any package I've used) the Bold and Italic
> options to remain available, so I can still change the whole selection
> to bold and/or italic as required.  Most widget sets these days offer a
> "3-state" toggle widget for this sort of thing-- selected, deselected,
> and "mixed" for when multiple objects are selected.


It sounds like Microsoft Word to me,  the gray colour is used to
indicate a toggle box in the mixed mode.

Ross Burton

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