Bug 156233

Summary: Use toggle actions instead of changing text
Product: [Applications] kmail Reporter: Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins>
Component: GUIAssignee: kdepim bugs <kdepim-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED WAITINGFORINFO    
Severity: wishlist CC: jjm, luigi.toscano
Priority: NOR    
Version: unspecified   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Maciej Pilichowski 2008-01-20 15:25:11 UTC
Version:            (using KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

for example "work online". 
 
 Reason: 
 a) it is easier to navigate for user, if users select option X, she/he then looks for option X to turn the feature off, but when the text is change there is no longer option X, there is option Y -- it takes more time to read and ensure that this is counterpart of the original option 
 a.1) it is not always 100% clear what the negation of the option will be 
 b) it adds unnecessary amount of work/resources to translate menus 
 c) it makes working in multilingual environment harder (one computer in english, second in polish) because of doubled text 
 e) it is visually easier to read what is on/off when you see checkbox 
 f) UI should be consistent within KDE --> checkboxes 
 
 
KDE4 live does not contain kmail, so I am sorry if this has been already fixed.
Comment 1 Jonathan Marten 2008-01-20 22:48:44 UTC
IMHO agree 100% that checkboxes are more obvious than changing the menu text, but usability opinion is divided and the preference seems to be as currently implemented.  See for example the thread at
http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-usability&m=111216845819500&w=2
Comment 2 Myriam Schweingruber 2012-08-18 08:37:28 UTC
Thank you for your feature request. Kmail1 is currently unmaintained so we are closing all wishes. Please feel free to reopen a feature request for Kmail2 if it has not already been implemented.
Thank you for your understanding.
Comment 3 Luigi Toscano 2012-08-19 00:23:00 UTC
Instead of creating a new feature request, please confirm here if the wishlist is still valid for kmail2.