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Alan Batie commented on DIRSTUDIO-234:
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He's got a good point about greyed out menu items having value, but that
shouldn't disable tooltips I would hope (never got into gui programming, though
I suppose it wouldn't surprise me if apis did disable everything for inactive
menu items). If so, not disabling the menu item, but manually changing the
font and action so you still get the visual value for experienced users (who
I'm pretty sure can still be wondering *why* on occasion), but also get the
information to the user. If nothing else, the docs should have a menu
reference that describes each menu item and what it requires for activation and
other "conditions of use"
> 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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