[Psi-devel] Re: hide menubar option

[Trejkaz]

On 6/22/05, Remko Troncon <remko.troncon at cs.kuleuven.be> wrote:
>> Of course, this depends how you look at it. To me, an application
>> always has a menubar, so you choose _not_ to have it. I have no
>> strong feelings about this, but this was my way of thinking when i
>> added the option.

Quoting Hal Rottenberg <halr9000 at gmail.com>:
> Ahh this is true.  However the OTHER options on this page and others
> are of the "show" type.

In fact in UI design in general, all options presented to a user should be
"positive" rather than "negative".  It just means that the default flips
around.

I suppose people might argue that "Hide" isn't necessarily negative, but I
always find that rewording the option makes it clear which it is.  "Hide Menu
Bar" might otherwise be phrased as "Disable Menu Bar", and "Disable" is
certainly negative. :-)

That's the other thing, actually... Menu Bar is two words.  But honestly, I
haven't seen the option yet so for all I know, it might already be correct in
this respect. :-)

TX


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