From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowitz@cygwin.com>
To: cygwin-apps@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH setup 0/4] Use a pop-up menu to select chooser view filter
Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aed87ac8-91d2-bae3-bc3f-fbddd5880704@cygwin.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <62665e05-fe7c-1aa0-29bd-9342d90ab29a@dronecode.org.uk>
On 2016-08-25 14:11, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 24/08/2016 17:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>> 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 'â–¾' 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.)
We're dropping Cygwin support for XP anyway, so why not from the
installer as well?
--
Yaakov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-08-25 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-24 14:16 Jon Turney
2016-08-24 14:16 ` [PATCH setup 4/4] Use a pop-up menu to directly " Jon Turney
2016-08-24 14:16 ` [PATCH setup 2/4] Change PickView::view into an enum Jon Turney
2016-08-24 14:16 ` [PATCH setup 1/4] Build C++ code with -std=gnu++11 Jon Turney
2016-08-24 14:16 ` [PATCH setup 3/4] Rename PickView::Package to PickView::PackagePending Jon Turney
2016-08-24 16:50 ` [PATCH setup 0/4] Use a pop-up menu to select chooser view filter Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-25 19:11 ` Jon Turney
2016-08-25 20:34 ` Yaakov Selkowitz [this message]
2016-08-26 8:07 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-26 14:41 ` Jon Turney
2016-08-26 14:43 ` [PATCH setup 5/6] Simplify view mode indication Jon Turney
2016-08-26 14:43 ` [PATCH setup 6/6] Use a splitbutton to show the view choosing popup menu Jon Turney
2016-08-26 15:25 ` [PATCH setup 0/4] Use a pop-up menu to select chooser view filter Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-29 10:03 ` Jon Turney
2016-08-29 10:04 ` [PATCH setup 4/4] Use a drop-down list to directly " Jon Turney
2016-08-30 13:01 ` Corinna Vinschen
2016-08-30 23:29 ` Jon Turney
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