From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 68714 invoked by alias); 25 Aug 2016 20:34:39 -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 68703 invoked by uid 89); 25 Aug 2016 20:34:38 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,SPF_HELO_PASS autolearn=no version=3.3.2 spammy=H*M:cygwin, H*i:sk:62665e0, H*f:sk:62665e0, H*MI:sk:62665e0 X-HELO: mx1.redhat.com Received: from mx1.redhat.com (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (209.132.183.28) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:34:37 +0000 Received: from int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.27]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 9CDCB7DD06 for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:34:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [10.10.116.60] (ovpn-116-60.rdu2.redhat.com [10.10.116.60]) by int-mx14.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id u7PKYZD2019007 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO) for ; Thu, 25 Aug 2016 16:34:36 -0400 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> <62665e05-fe7c-1aa0-29bd-9342d90ab29a@dronecode.org.uk> From: Yaakov Selkowitz Message-ID: Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2016 20:34:00 -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: <62665e05-fe7c-1aa0-29bd-9342d90ab29a@dronecode.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-08/txt/msg00091.txt.bz2 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 '▾' 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