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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Normally the menus with options I'm used to look like this:

http://i.imgur.com/w8EuAOG.png (Visual Studio)

They don't put icons (which personally I think are overused in this
instance) next to them and just use the space for the checkmark.

On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 10:50 AM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> No. That serves the functional purpose, but not the aesthetic one. A
> disabled menu item conveys to the user that it is not available for use,
> so disabling the currently active item says exactly the opposite of what
> it should: not "OpenGL is currently in use, so you can't switch to it"
> but rather "OpenGL is unavailable for you to use".
>
> An acceptable solution fulfills *both* purposes: it only allows the user
> to make valid selections, and explains to the user what those selections
> actually are.
>
> On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 05:42:51PM +0200, Константин Барановский wrote:
>> As variant, we may just disable menu entry for currently selected canvas.
>>
>> 2017-01-14 16:51 GMT+02:00 Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>:
>>
>> > That's what I think I'll have to do.
>> >
>> > It can be annoying to have to fit within the GUI paradigm of all three
>> > OSes... What I'd /really/ like is something that looks like this, with a
>> > header:
>> >
>> >  +--------------+
>> >  | Canvas type  |
>> >  |              |
>> >  | ( )  Legacy  |
>> >  | (O)  OpenGL  |
>> >  | ( )  Cairo   |
>> >  +--------------+
>> >
>> > But I can't make that look good on OSX :((
>> >
>> >
>> > On Sat, Jan 14, 2017 at 03:44:21PM +0100, Nick Østergaard wrote:
>> > > I think that menu is a bit strange. Why not ditch the icon's for those
>> > > canvas options and just a checkmark as used in the language menu?
>> > >
>> > > 2017-01-14 15:35 GMT+01:00 Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > > > This looks bad:
>> > > >
>> > > > https://misc.c4757p.com/ugly.png
>> > > >
>> > > > Really bad. Three of the same icon, with low enough contrast that I can
>> > > > barely tell what it's a picture of... and seriously, prepending "** "
>> > to
>> > > > mark the selected item? Really? Even text-mode applications that are
>> > > > stuck doing things like that usually think to space over the deselected
>> > > > ones too so everything still lines up...
>> > > >
>> > > > If I prepared a patch to ditch the icon and display option buttons next
>> > > > to those instead, would it be argued against?
>> > > >
>> > > > --
>> > > > Chris
>> > > >
>> > > >
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Mark