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Martin Alderson commented on DIRSTUDIO-234:
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Good article. I read Spolsky's original article and strongly disagreed with it,
although I do think disabled menu items are sometimes used when they shouldn't
be.
It always seems to me to be a good idea to give users relevant information as
early as possible. I also generally think it's a good idea to not restrict
users.
For menu items that might be useful but likely are not I feel it would be ideal
to alter the display of the item in some way to indicate this but still allow
it to be activated. A tooltip is probably good enough but that does lose the
immediacy of the disabled style.
> Greyed out menu items should have a tool tip explaining *why* they're greyed
> out
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> Key: DIRSTUDIO-234
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DIRSTUDIO-234
> Project: Directory Studio
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: studio-ldapbrowser
> Affects Versions: 1.0.1
> Environment: OSX 10.4
> Reporter: Alan Batie
> Assignee: Stefan Seelmann
> Fix For: 1.2.0
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> All GUIs should have a tool tip explaining why something is greyed out and
> what needs to be done to make it active (and it needs to be *useful*
> information, not just "it doesn't apply" or "you're not allowed to do that
> now" --- it's obvious the *application* thinks that because it's greyed out).
> In this case, I did a search against our ldap server, found an attribute
> that needed removing and did so. Then I did another search. This time the
> font changed to italic, and when I go to delete an attribute, Delete is
> greyed out. There is no clue anywhere as to what's going on. I searched in
> help for the ldap browser, and found very little.
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