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Interface guidelines regarding the right-click menu provided by the panel. | Interface guidelines regarding the right-click menu provided by the panel. | ||
- | * [rfc] Help/About? | + | * [rfc] Help? |
* //ongardie 2007/12/18 05:51 The current trend is to not include these at all but to put information on the plugin web site. // | * //ongardie 2007/12/18 05:51 The current trend is to not include these at all but to put information on the plugin web site. // | ||
- | * // fabian 2007/12/18 22:47 GMT Well, some plugins just run the opposite trend: Disk Performance Monitor, Quiklauncher, | + | * [snip] |
- | * I wouldn' | + | |
* Some plugins have a dialog with a Help button which opens a webpage. | * Some plugins have a dialog with a Help button which opens a webpage. | ||
* To clarify, Mike meant to say they display a Help button in their preferences/ | * To clarify, Mike meant to say they display a Help button in their preferences/ | ||
- | * The three plugins fabian pointed out just show an About item in their context menu. Each of those about dialogs is rather poor, IMHO. Help has to be added manually to the context menu, and I agree with Mike in that its almost always unnecessary. I think the guideline here should be " | + | * Help has to be added manually to the context menu, and I agree with Mike in that its almost always unnecessary. I think the guideline here should be "Help context menu items are discouraged. A Help button inside the properties dialog is optional (see ...)" --- // |
+ | * [rfc] About? | ||
+ | * //ongardie 2007/12/18 05:51 The current trend is to not include these at all but to put information on the plugin web site. // | ||
+ | * // fabian 2007/12/18 22:47 GMT Well, some plugins just run the opposite trend: Disk Performance Monitor, Quiklauncher, | ||
+ | * The three plugins fabian pointed out [...] show an About item in their context menu. Each of those about dialogs is rather poor, IMHO. I think the guideline should be "About menu items are discouraged." | ||
==== Menus ==== | ==== Menus ==== | ||
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* [draft] Optionally, display a title \\ If you would like to add a title to your menu, set it insensitive and bold, and place it on top of the menu followed by a separator \\ {{http:// | * [draft] Optionally, display a title \\ If you would like to add a title to your menu, set it insensitive and bold, and place it on top of the menu followed by a separator \\ {{http:// | ||
* I'm not convinced I like this. Perhaps we should discourage menu titles instead. --- // | * I'm not convinced I like this. Perhaps we should discourage menu titles instead. --- // | ||
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* [rfc] When to store (save) altered settings? \\ Moved to [[panel-hig: | * [rfc] When to store (save) altered settings? \\ Moved to [[panel-hig: | ||
- | * [draft] | + | * [draft] |
* The sensitive part can be dropped, it just works if the dialog is set modal (see [[http:// | * The sensitive part can be dropped, it just works if the dialog is set modal (see [[http:// | ||
+ | * "and the plugin' | ||
* Indeed in Xfce it is very common to apply changes immediately unless you are making more complex changes. Please avoid insensitivity or modality where possible. --- kalikiana 2008/01/26 17:06 | * Indeed in Xfce it is very common to apply changes immediately unless you are making more complex changes. Please avoid insensitivity or modality where possible. --- kalikiana 2008/01/26 17:06 | ||
+ | * Reworded draft to emphasize this point. | ||
+ | * I think this one's pretty solid now. Let's allow until 2008/03/16 (two weeks) for further debate. If there are no more negative comments, the " | ||