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[Julian Edwards <julian.edwards@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 24 October 2011 16:20:29 Martin Pool wrote:
> > A control should be hidden if:
> > - It is never available to the user in this context (the user can not do
> > anything to enable it)
> I agree with the principle but it depends a bit on what you mean by 'never'.
> 
> Some of the cases that have come up in lp (and been handled inconsistently):
> 
>  * this control would be available if you logged in
>  * ... if you had some greater privilege in this context (eg if you
> were a bug supervisor, ....)
>  * ... if you changed some configuration of this context (eg turning
> on/off use of an application by a project)
>  * ... you had some superhuman privilege (~admin etc)
> 
> It could be good to explain this in the style guide.

Personally, I hate hate hate magically appearing and disappearing links. I'd 
vote for making them disabled rather than invisible.