On Tue, 2009 Jan 27 19:11:39 +0100, Enrico Tröger wrote: > > > >Well, you'd dynamically update the status of the Selection button to > >reflect the existence/absence of a selection to operate on. The whole > >idea is, the button is greyed out at the times that its associated > >action is not sensible. > > Oh come on, then we could also add tons of other useless > features just to bloat it up. > > I think users will notice that the 'in selection' action doesn't make > any sense when there is no selection, users are not stupid (although > some designers of a famous DE may think this sometimes...).
It's no different than greying out a Web browser's "Stop" button when a site has finished loading. Sure, a user might already know that there is no selection, or that a site is already loaded, but the grey-out makes the current state more conspicuous---as well as that the associated operation is a no-op. Is that feature bloat? Well... yeah, if your standard is xedit }:) --Daniel -- NAME = Daniel Richard G. ## Remember, skunks _\|/_ meef? EMAIL1 = [email protected] ## don't smell bad--- (/o|o\) / EMAIL2 = [email protected] ## it's the people who < (^),> WWW = http://www.******.org/ ## annoy them that do! / \ -- (****** = site not yet online) _______________________________________________ Geany mailing list [email protected] http://lists.uvena.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geany
