Re: [Usability] combo box guidelines?



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I disagree, I think that if the options can't fit on the screen,
moving it down to display the maximum number of options is more
important than preserving the current position of the combo box.

Benjamin Berg wrote:
> On Sun, 2007-23-09 at 19:12 +0100, Iain * wrote:
>> Yeah thats a bug, not a usability issue...bugzilla.gnome.org
>> would be the best place to take it...
>
> There are some bugs (eg. [1]) related to this, and it is the
> intended behaviour. By placing the current selected item on top of
> the combobox you can just click twice on a combobox and the
> selection will not change. Personally I think that this behaviour
> does make sense. It maybe looks weird and it is kind of annoying in
> some cases, but personally I don't know how it could be improved.
> (And I don't believe that moving all the items to use up the space
> is the right thing to do.)
>
> Benjamin
>
> [1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129463 or
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=374871
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