| Summary: | checkbox is misused for the 'show in menu' column in the manage profiles dialog | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] konsole | Reporter: | Maciej Pilichowski <bluedzins> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Konsole Developer <konsole-devel> |
| Status: | RESOLVED WORKSFORME | ||
| Severity: | normal | CC: | adaptee, robertknight |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | openSUSE | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
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Description
Maciej Pilichowski
2009-09-06 11:51:15 UTC
Hi Maciej, I don't quite follow your report. Are you referring to the fact that a bookmark 'star' is used in the Manage Profiles dialog instead of a checkbox? Robert, no. In this dialog in the "show in menu" column correct mark is used: v but the issue is -- there is no checkbox box around. So when the option is on, user can see v but when it is off, there is empty cell. So now it looks like passive (information) element, not as active widget. Should I attach screenshot? > Should I attach screenshot?
No. I follow your report now. Using the standard checkbox widget would fix the possible confusion - although I don't think it would look nice in that space. An alternative would be to use a pointing-hand cursor when mousing over that column to indicate that it is clickable.
Yes, checkbox will fix it, and honesly I don't think it will be "cool", but not ugly either -- pretty normal. I see a lot of checkbox in the menu in a row, and it is OK. The "info on hover UI" is actually not that informative (it would be a progress in this case for sure), but it is not advised to use such UI in non-games applications, because of the discoverity effect (you have to explore, to get the info). Thus I am all for checkboxes. Two years passed and no vote/comment/CC from users (except the reporter and developers). I guess that is a good implication the reproted UI problem is actually not an issue. It might be a good idea to add tooltip for the "show in menu" and "shorcut" columns. Git commit befef967b92344bcc8cfdfc401dd5635d3b9f238 by Jekyll Wu. Committed on 26/04/2012 at 02:26. Pushed by jekyllwu into branch 'master'. Add tooltip for items in the three columns in the "Manage Profiles" dialog It might be a little noisy to add tooltip for each item. M +3 -0 src/ManageProfilesDialog.cpp http://commits.kde.org/konsole/befef967b92344bcc8cfdfc401dd5635d3b9f238 |