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[Jonathan Meek <shrouded.cloud@xxxxxxxxx>]

Or not, it seems that is the wrong bug?

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> Jonathan Meek wrote on 07/04/11 03:22:
> >...
> > An example: Go to Power Management preferences and click the combobox
> > for action to take on laptop lid closing, a menu will appear and you
> > can choose an item at your leisure. Now, go run CCSM and go to the
> > Unity plugin's settings, click on the combobox for hide behavior and it
> > appears nothing happens. The two boxes look the same, but for one, you
> > have to seemingly arbitrarily click and hold the combobox to select
> > items and the other you don't. An even better example, I see THREE
> > different comboboxes used in the Software Sources dialog: 1) In the
> > Ubuntu Software tab, a click and hold combobox. 2)In the Updates tab a
> > combobox that you can type in for some reason.(The Check for updates
> > one) 3) Below that in the Updates tab as well, a combobox with the
> > "correct behavior. (The Release upgrade combobox)
> >...
>
> A radio menu, or option menu, lets you choose one of several choices,
> and displays the current choice in the closed menu. It's the menu
> equivalent of a set of radio buttons.
>
> A combo box is a combination of a text field and a radio menu, and
> displays the current choice in the text field.
>
> Windows calls a radio menu a "drop-down list", while Mac OS X calls it a
> "pop-up menu". GTK mistakenly calls it a "combo box", and then calls an
> actual combo box a "combo box entry".
>
> In both Ambiance and Radiance, I see no difference in appearance or
> behavior between the Power Management Preferences "When laptop lid is
> closed" menu, the CCSM Unity "Hide Launcher" menu, and the Software
> Sources "Download from" and "Show new distribution releases" menus. If
> you still see a difference, perhaps you could publish a screencast
> somewhere demonstrating it?
>
> The "Check for updates" menu is a combo box, and should not be. Someone
> has just reported this bug. <http://launchpad.net/bugs/750507>
>
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