Hi
The battery menu's been like this since Tiger. I'm not sure if the
menu items are just being reported inaccurately to VO, or what, but I
can confirm on my system it is indeed reversed. If percentage is
checked, time is shown instead and, if time is checked, percentage
shows. This is certainly how it operates on my machine. It'd be
another matter if it says "show percentage" or "show time" and didn't
have both items there with one of them checked. Then I could see it
working the way you describe.
On Mar 1, 2009, at 18:27, David Poehlman wrote:
> ok, I just revissitted this and somehow, it works the way it is
> supposed to work unless this has been misslabeled forever or vo is
> rreporting incorrect info. I say this because I cannot imagine it's
> been overlooked by design for this long a time and as I mentioned
> before, someone did explain how this works and it made sense at the
> time.
>
> On Mar 1, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Jacob Schmude wrote:
>
>
> Hi David
> While you're correct for the most part, this doesn't apply to the
> battery menu,s time/percentage choices. These are, in fact, reversed
> for reasons that are unknown to me. They have a check mark next to the
> item that is supposed to be shown, so the battery menu is much more
> like a traditional menu. For some reason, though, when the check mark
> is next to percentage, time shows up and when it is next to time,
> percentage shows up. This is most definitely reversed.
> In most other menus, you're absolutely correct about the approach most
> Mac developers take. In safari, for example, when you see "hide
> bookmarks bar" that is exactly what it will do when you push it, and
> that menu item will change to "show bookmarks bar" to reflect that the
> bookmarks bar is now hidden and will be shown if you activate that
> menu choice. This just doesn't apply to the battery menu, however.
>
>
> On Mar 1, 2009, at 17:15, David Poehlman wrote:
>
>>
>> HI all,
>>
>> Someone somewhere explained this better than I will a while back, but
>> in the case of battery status for instance, what you are seeing is by
>> design, it is reporting what will happen when you click it, not what
>> is. so if you know this and you see status reported and time isted,
>> you will kow that when you click status, you will see time reported
>> and status listed.
>>
>> I hope I didn't confuse anyone with this. It is kind of like the
>> light switches that are built so that they are up when they are off
>> and down when they are on <grin>
>>
>>
>>>
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