Version: (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: gcc 3.3.1 OS: Linux Toggle items in menus currently are sunken grey X's. A lot of KDE apps would look a LOT nicer with check boxes in the menu or radio buttons if appropriate. There is the same sort of problem with toggles in lists as used for example in the Noatun configuration dialog. I am going to attach some screenshots of current appearance and mockups of how much better it would look. :-)
Created attachment 4502 [details] current appearance of menu Notice the X's... grrr, it burns my eyes
Created attachment 4503 [details] what menus could possibly look like IMHO, much better
did you try different GUI styles?
Subject: Re: proper widgets should be used for list and menu checkboxes Its the same with every style.
Created attachment 4688 [details] Current Noatun Configure Dialog Notice the black boxes, this same style of checkbox-in-list is used in other apps as well.
Created attachment 4698 [details] what lists could possibly look like Here is a mock up of something that looks a bit better. And yes, I did make a mistake, checkboxes in menus do change with styles, its just that many styles that a based on Keramik haven't been bothered changing this. One style that does do this well is .NET. And yes, I realize that this is a very minor thing that I shouldn't be posting attachments for. ;-)
Qt: 4.5.1 (qt-copy 958974) KDE: 4.2.71 (KDE 4.2.71 (KDE 4.3 >= 20090428)) kdelibs svn rev. 960693 / kdebase svn rev. 960693 on ArchLinux i686 - Kernel 2.6.29.1 Both Plastique(Plastik@Qt4) and Oxygen use proper widgets for the checkbox/optionbutton in the menus. (You can check it in Kate Tools menu)