On Monday 24 October 2011 16:20:29 Martin Pool wrote: > > A control should be hidden if: > > - It is never available to the user in this context (the user can not do > > anything to enable it) > I agree with the principle but it depends a bit on what you mean by 'never'. > > Some of the cases that have come up in lp (and been handled inconsistently): > > * this control would be available if you logged in > * ... if you had some greater privilege in this context (eg if you > were a bug supervisor, ....) > * ... if you changed some configuration of this context (eg turning > on/off use of an application by a project) > * ... you had some superhuman privilege (~admin etc) > > It could be good to explain this in the style guide.
Personally, I hate hate hate magically appearing and disappearing links. I'd vote for making them disabled rather than invisible. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev Post to : launchpad-dev@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~launchpad-dev More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
