[406] in Athena User Interface
Re: Menu icons not working
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brad Thompson)
Fri Sep 8 13:37:44 2000
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To: beland@MIT.EDU
cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 08 Sep 2000 01:02:01 EDT."
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Date: Fri, 08 Sep 2000 13:37:40 -0400
From: Brad Thompson <yak@MIT.EDU>
> I don't know what mechanism has been decided upon for indicating that
> a program is not available on a given platform, but icon presence
> certainly shouldn't be it.
Ideally, the menu item would be greyed out and the tooltip would be
extended to say that the program is not availible and that the user
should move to one of the following platforms. This is unfortunately
impossible. So, the menu item stays like it is normally. If it is not
installed on the current, platform the user is zephyred with a message
telling them that the program is not availible on this platform. More
information on this topic can be found in my menu system document and
the zathrun manpage.
> Also, they are on by default in Gnome, and are pictured in
> documentation. Shouldn't we have a better justification for turning
> them off than mere aesthetics?
The gnome defaults are different because the gnome people have absolute
control over the distribution and can make sure that every program has
a decent icon. To a first approximation, the whole justification for
the AUI project is aesthetics, so "mere aesthetics" are certainly
sufficient justification for turning the icons off.
yak
