From koffice-devel Wed Dec 03 09:16:26 2008 From: Johannes Simon Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:16:26 +0000 To: koffice-devel Subject: Re: KWord Format menu Message-Id: <200812031016.27053.johannes.simon () gmail ! com> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=koffice-devel&m=122829584414122 I agree. I have seen the same problem in many other KDE applications already, and don't think this makes sense. Maybe it should be a point in the KDE Human Interface Guideline, that the text of check boxes must not change depending on its state. On Wednesday 03 December 2008 00:06:41 Magnus Lundborg wrote: > Hello, > > I think the menu items for controlling Document Headers and Document > Footers in the Format menu are a bit confusing. > > Let's say we start like this (O symbolising unchecked checkboxes): > O Enable Document Headers > O Enable Document Footers > > If one then selects one of them, i.e. to enable that selection the menu > items will look like this (X symbolising checked checkbox): > X Disable Document Headers > O Enable Document Footers > > > I get the impression that the Document Headers are then actually > disabled since the checkbox is checked. I think it would all work better > if just the checkbox changed, but the menu item text did not change. > I.e. after selecting Enable Document Headers it would look like this: > X Enable Document Headers > O Enable Document Footers > > > This would also bring it into line with how the checked menu items in > the View menu work, i.e. you go from: > O Show Rulers > to > X Show Rulers > not > X Hide Rulers > > > I have not made any patches for this. First I want to see that people > agree it would be worth changing it. > > Best Regards > /Magnus > _______________________________________________ > koffice-devel mailing list > koffice-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel _______________________________________________ koffice-devel mailing list koffice-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/koffice-devel