Re: [Nautilus-list] FW: Preview Release Comments

[Calum Benson <calum benson ireland sun com>]

Ben Ford wrote:

> >
> > I tried to test how this works in GMC right now, but when I selected two
> > icons and right-clicked on one the menu didn't include "Properties..." like
> > it usually does. How do you invoke this behavior in GMC?
> 
> Many word processors will work in a similar fashion.  If you have a paragraph
> with a line bolded and a nother line italicized, and you select all the text,
> both the bold and italics will appear greyed out.  Basically, if an entire
> selection matches a property, then that property is displayed, if not, it is
> greyed, but you can click it and change the whole selection's properties.
> (Being greyed is supposed to mean mean not editable so maybe a different color?)

Yuck, which word processors work like that?  If I make a selection like
that, I'd want (and get, in any package I've used) the Bold and Italic
options to remain available, so I can still change the whole selection
to bold and/or italic as required.  Most widget sets these days offer a
"3-state" toggle widget for this sort of thing-- selected, deselected,
and "mixed" for when multiple objects are selected.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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