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

[Christian Rose <menthos menthos com>]

ons 2002-12-11 klockan 20.35 skrev Calum Benson:
> > "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.
> 
> Right, although right now there's no way of accessing that menu while
> the menubar is hidden, so you'd never see "Menubar" in its unchecked
> state, which kind of defeats the purpose :)  

Right-click? ;-)
That's of course not an accessible solution, so I agree with everything
you say below.


> I guess we ideally need to invent some standard way of getting at the
> menubar even when it's hidden, e.g. by implementing it as something like
> an auto-hiding edge panel, or just making sure it temporarily reappears
> when you press F10, or Alt+F, or whatever.


Christian