Re: [Usability]Should the HIG advise use of Check and Radio menu items?

[Dave Bordoley <bordoley msu edu>]

On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 16:49, Christian Rose wrote:
> tis 2002-12-24 klockan 02.43 skrev Murray Cumming:
> > > > Because it shows a tick when it's active, but nothing when it is not
> > > > active. 
> > > > 
> > > > Well that might make sense. An untoggled Show Something menu item would
> > > > look like a normal menu item when the Something isn't already shown. And
> > > > when you look at it again you can see, from the little tick, that it is
> > > > already shown.
> > > 
> > > Owen had some objections to this the last time this was discussed
> > > (http://lists.gnome.org/archives/hig/2002-February/msg00018.html), but I
> > > don't know if the situation has changed.
> > 
> > That's not an objection. He just says that it doesn't work now. We know
> > that already.
> 
> Well, it seems that he's certainly objecting now:
> http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101884
> 

FWIW, the mist theme engine has an unselected state for menu toggles and
its pretty nice :)

dave