No. That serves the functional purpose, but not the aesthetic one. A disabled menu item conveys to the user that it is not available for use, so disabling the currently active item says exactly the opposite of what it should: not "OpenGL is currently in use, so you can't switch to it" but rather "OpenGL is unavailable for you to use".
An acceptable solution fulfills *both* purposes: it only allows the user to make valid selections, and explains to the user what those selections actually are. On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 05:42:51PM +0200, Константин Барановский wrote: > As variant, we may just disable menu entry for currently selected canvas. > > 2017-01-14 16:51 GMT+02:00 Chris Pavlina <[email protected]>: > > > That's what I think I'll have to do. > > > > It can be annoying to have to fit within the GUI paradigm of all three > > OSes... What I'd /really/ like is something that looks like this, with a > > header: > > > > +--------------+ > > | Canvas type | > > | | > > | ( ) Legacy | > > | (O) OpenGL | > > | ( ) Cairo | > > +--------------+ > > > > But I can't make that look good on OSX :(( > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 03:44:21PM +0100, Nick Østergaard wrote: > > > I think that menu is a bit strange. Why not ditch the icon's for those > > > canvas options and just a checkmark as used in the language menu? > > > > > > 2017-01-14 15:35 GMT+01:00 Chris Pavlina <[email protected]>: > > > > This looks bad: > > > > > > > > https://misc.c4757p.com/ugly.png > > > > > > > > Really bad. Three of the same icon, with low enough contrast that I can > > > > barely tell what it's a picture of... and seriously, prepending "** " > > to > > > > mark the selected item? Really? Even text-mode applications that are > > > > stuck doing things like that usually think to space over the deselected > > > > ones too so everything still lines up... > > > > > > > > If I prepared a patch to ditch the icon and display option buttons next > > > > to those instead, would it be argued against? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Chris > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > > > Post to : [email protected] > > > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > Post to : [email protected] > > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers > > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kicad-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
