Re: [Usability]Re: Should the HIG advise use of Check and Radio menu items?

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

ons 2002-12-11 klockan 18.33 skrev Michael Toomim:
> > They solve one problem: in most themes, including the default theme,
> > an untoggled radio or check menu item can not be distinguished from
> > a normal menu item.
> 
> Is this really an issue?  Here's the current version of gnome-terminal's 
> "view" menu before selecting any of the boolean items:
> 
>   ----------------
> |  View          |
> |----------------|
> |  Hide Menubar  |
> |  Fullscreen    |
>   ----------------
> 
> Here's what it would look like with checkboxes instead of mutating 
> menu-items:
> 
>   ----------------
> |  View          |
> |----------------|
> |  Hide Menubar  |
> |  Fullscreen    |
>   ----------------

No. It would look like this:

 ----------------
|  View          |
|----------------|
|   Menubar      |
|   Fullscreen   |
 ----------------

"Hide menubar" should only be used if a checkbox isn't used, since the
negation is a redundant and only confusing layer here -- instead of the
checkbox simply representing the existence of the object, it represents
the non-existence of the object, which is the opposite of the affordance
of the checkbox itself.


Christian