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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KDE's menu implementation.
From:       Irwin <emerald-arcana () rogers ! com>
Date:       2002-05-30 3:15:07
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On May 29, 2002 12:46 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On May 29, 2002 10:18 am, Gordon Tyler wrote:
> > The other alternative is to not allow selecting of disabled menu items at
> > all. Keyboard navigation would skip over disabled items and mouse-hover
> > wouldn't highlight them.
>
> while this would make sense and be sane, it would require hacking
> qpopupmenu to achieve. we could make a patch and send it to TT, but who
> knows when or if they would merge it in ...

The counterargument is that if someone is used to pressing "Alt-F", down
twice, and "Enter", it might screw them up if they, let's say, opened a new
document and "New" was disabled.  Or what-not.

I don't think this is a strong enough argument to justify NOT doing this, but
it's a consideration that you might want to think about.

- --
- -- Irwin
(Arcana)
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