> It would also be in keeping with Apple's guidelines for CM's. To quote from
> Inside Macintosh: Mac OS 8 Human Interface Guidelines, Chapter 4 - Menu
> Guidelines
> <http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/mac/HIGOS8Guide/thig-56.html>, "You
> should never place a command in a contextual menu which is disabled in or
> cannot be chosen from another menu in the application."
Um, I've always parsed that guideline to mean that you should be able to
access functionality via the Contextual Menu that is
1) Currently disabled in the normal UI
2) Or *only* available via the Contextual menu.
But I now note that the Finder seemingly disagrees with my interpretation
and, so far as I can tell in 5 minutes of dinking around, never has disabled
items in its Contextual Menu.
I hate it when that happens... ;-)
> Removing disabled items is what makes a contextual menu "contextual".
While I started out intending to argue the point, I think I may have to
agree instead.
Although there is still an argument that having the disabled items visible
makes it clearer that the functionality exists...but isn't currently active.
mikel
PS: I think that this is one of the "problems" with having the Inside
Macintosh volumes now available online. Apple seemingly tweaks stuff
without mentioning it to anyone... Of course, I stupidly threw away all of
my printed stuff earlier this year...so I can't confirm my vague
recollection of how reality used to be. ;-)
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