Re: Request for very small UI change in Tomboy

["Elijah Newren" <newren gmail com>]

On 2/9/07, Sanford Armstrong <sanfordarmstrong gmail com> wrote:
> On 2/9/07, Calum Benson <Calum Benson sun com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 06:10 -0800, Sanford Armstrong wrote:
> >
> > > Normally I'd agree.  But I would guess that most Tomboy users who
> > > haven't tried the Sticky Notes applet never will.  So for 80% of our
> > > users, the option just takes up space.  This plugin is really meant as
> > > a migratory path for existing Sticky Notes applet users.
> > >
> > > Obviously I can change the patch to disable the option if people think
> > > that follows HIG better.
> >
> > The normal rule of thumb (although the HIG doesn't explicitly say this)
> > would be that hiding menu items is only appropriate if they're going to
> > remain hidden for the lifetime of a particular application instance,
> > from startup to quit.  If the user can potentially do something to
> > enable/disable them in the meantime, the menu item should be shown and
> > enabled/disabled as required.
>
> In this patch, if I start Tomboy and there are no sticky notes, it
> will not bother checking again until I restart Tomboy.  So the menu
> option will either exist or not exist for the entire lifetime of the
> Tomboy instance.  So it seems that we do comply with this rule of
> thumb.
>
> > (Not really familiar the Tomboy UI, but one way to get around the whole
> > issue might be to have a generic "Import" option that let you import
> > notes from a variety of sources, one of which might be Sticky Notes.
> > The Import option would always be available, assuming you could import
> > from simple things like text or html files, and the Import dialog could
> > check for and list only those sources that were available at that moment
> > in time.)
>
> Yes, that would be better.  But right now we only offer import of
> Sticky Notes.  ;-)

Does this affect documentation?  If not, Calum's arguments and the
smallness of the change are good enough for me for 1 of 2 approvals.

Elijah