On 16/05/10 08:07, Luke Benstead wrote: > My idea is this, each application has two indicators called "Export > to..." and "Import from...". I'm not sure what the icons would look > like to convey those concepts, but that's the general idea. Basically, > these menus would adapt based on: > For designing indicators, ask yourself: - what is the *status* I am conveying, and - what options are there to manipulate that status? If you don't have both, especially the status, don't use an indicator. Use a menu. In this case, what you are describing is really just part of the File menu. So leave it there. Now, a related and more useful concept, would be Sharing. Because you can have a status on that: the document is either shared, or not. And if you're being fancy, and have real-time collaboration in your app, then there are either other people editing and viewing at the same time, or not. *That* would make a good windicator. Make sense? Mark
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