I don't think anything's being done about it, but the bug is there Patrick
Johnny Yen wrote: > "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 > > >
