On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 11:49 AM, Adrian Buehlmann <adr...@cadifra.com> wrote: > The new menubar in the default branch looks promising, > thanks for your work Steve. > > Is there any reason why we use "as radio" markers for checkmark > menu items?
Uhm.. no idea. I think this is a one-line change. > On MS Windows, radio markers in menus are exclusively used for > mutually exclusive settings. Sets of mutually exclusive settings > in menus are grouped together with separators (see the > "View" menu on Windows XP's explorer as an example). > > For example, all entries in the new "Columns" and "Features" > menus of the history dialog are *not* mutually exclusive, and > as such should have checkmarks when enabled (not "as radio" > marks when enabled). > > At least every application I use on Windows -- except TortoiseHg :) > -- does it like that. > (I'm pretty sure this is somewhere in the ui design guidelines > for Windows apps.) > > Another thing is: why does the Help menu have to be stuck > to the right edge of the Window? This is again non-standard > on MS Windows. > > For MS Windows applications, the Help menu is the last menu > and follows its predecessor with the same spacing as all other > menus. > > I know, TortoiseHg is used on Linux too, but what is the > standard there? Uhm, not sure about this either. Another one-line change. :) -- Steve Borho ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on what you do best, core application coding. Discover what's new with Crystal Reports now. http://p.sf.net/sfu/bobj-july _______________________________________________ Tortoisehg-develop mailing list Tortoisehg-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tortoisehg-develop
