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- From: max@eskimo.celestial.com (Max Pinton)
- Subject: Re: Changing Command-Key for a menu item
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.073541.2090@eskimo.celestial.com>
- Organization: -> ESKIMO NORTH (206) For-Ever <-
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- References: <1992Jul15.131911.14486@hobbes.kzoo.edu>
- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1992 07:35:41 GMT
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- k044477@hobbes.kzoo.edu (Jamie R. McCarthy) writes:
- : erh0362@tesla.njit.edu (Elliotte Rusty Harold) writes:
- :
- : It's incredible to me how an interface that prides itself on showing
- : everything to the user can _still_, in _1992_, have toggling menu items
- : that toggle the _name_. What's wrong with a checkmark by a "Visible
- : Rulers" item? Why does the item have to bounce between "Hide Rulers"
- : and "Show Rulers"?
- :
- : If it _does_ something, make it a verb: Edit Macros.
- : If it _shows_ the state of something, make it a noun: Fractional Widths.
- : If it _toggles_ between two states, make it a noun with a checkmark:
- : >check< Visible Rulers.
-
- Tog talks about this in _Tog on Interface_ ... Another problem with
- rotating menu items is that the menu item indicates the opposite of the
- current state; "Hide Rulers" is in the menu when the rulers are *not*
- hidden.
-
- It's all pretty tacky to me.
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