"Neil" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > Bill Lee wrote: > > > Why must I open a newsgroup and actually click on a message in order > > to use the "mark newsgroup read" icon dropdown menu? > > Because it's really the "toggle mark message as read" button which > happens to have a menu (<toolbarbutton type="menu-button">), and > therefore if you don't have a message you can't use the button, and > therefore the menu. > > Although, now I think of it, changing its type to "menu" instead of > disabling it might work... Comments, anyone? > Yes, but they're forcing everyone to either go down to the newsgroup name, right click, and hunt for the "mark newsgroup read" item, or acutally click on a message to enable the icon dropdown button. Every other program has this in the button bar "Mark" icon dropdown. Simple usability issue. IE even has a seperate button just for this (of course, IE's icon menu bar is 'customizable', so you can put what you most use up there.
jy
