Version: (using KDE 4.3.0) Installed from: SuSE RPMs Checkbox turned on [v] checkbox turned off [ ] Yet, konsole for the same purpose, in the settings -> manage profiles -> show in menu, uses such UI on v off Yes, nothing when off. This is UI bug and with this dialog quite misleading because all actions for this dialogs are presented as regular buttons, so user could expect the button "show in menu" as well.
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