From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 69448 invoked by alias); 25 Aug 2016 19:11:30 -0000 Mailing-List: contact cygwin-apps-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk Sender: cygwin-apps-owner@cygwin.com List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Mail-Followup-To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com Received: (qmail 69394 invoked by uid 89); 25 Aug 2016 19:11:23 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=clicking, H*RU:sk:host31-, H*r:sk:host31-, Hx-spam-relays-external:sk:host31- X-HELO: out2-smtp.messagingengine.com Received: from out2-smtp.messagingengine.com (HELO out2-smtp.messagingengine.com) (66.111.4.26) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 19:11:13 +0000 Received: from compute5.internal (compute5.nyi.internal [10.202.2.45]) by mailout.nyi.internal (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1C41204BB for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:11:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from frontend1 ([10.202.2.160]) by compute5.internal (MEProxy); Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:11:11 -0400 Received: from [192.168.1.102] (host31-51-206-108.range31-51.btcentralplus.com [31.51.206.108]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 87ACEF29CD for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 15:11:11 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: [PATCH setup 0/4] Use a pop-up menu to select chooser view filter To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com References: <20160824141537.34836-1-jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk> <20160824165037.GA9783@calimero.vinschen.de> From: Jon Turney Message-ID: <62665e05-fe7c-1aa0-29bd-9342d90ab29a@dronecode.org.uk> Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 19:11:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20160824165037.GA9783@calimero.vinschen.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00090.txt.bz2 On 24/08/2016 17:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote: > On Aug 24 15:15, Jon Turney wrote: >> Clicking on a button to cycle around alternatives seems bad UI, so instead allow >> a specific filter view to be directly selected with a pop-up menu. >> >> I'm not sure if this is a great improvement or not, but since I wrote it, here >> it is... > > Nice idea and works fine in my limited testing. > > One question: Usually the popup menu itself reflects the current choice. > So, wouldn't it make more sense to have the text "View" just as plain > text to the left, and the actual popup menu next right to it, showing > the current choice? Yes? No? Shut up? Yeah, there is probably better visual language to be used here. If the popup menu itself reflects the current choice, perhaps we don't need a caption with the current choice at all (i.e. just a button that says "View" and that's all...) I'd really like that button to have a '▾' to indicate it has a drop-down, but that seems hard to achieve. (This might be done with the BS_SPLITBUTTON style (which combines a button and dropdown menu), but that is sadly only supported by common controls on Vista or later.)