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Re: One of the most exasperating GUI features

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Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> writes:

> The greyed out menu option.
>
> It's there. I want to select it, but it's disabled.
>
> Why?
>
> Presumably the program knows, but it doesn't let on. I'm meant to be
> able to guess what I have to do to enable it.
>
> In some software that I've developed, hovering over a greyed out menu
> option cause a tip to be displayed stating the reason it's greyed out.
>
> I wish that were standard practice. It would alleviate a major cause
> of baldness.

You wish that most people would actually have a passion for what they do
for a living.  But the world is depressed in every sense of the word.

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One of the most exasperating GUI features Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2022-01-23 19:58 +1100
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  Re: One of the most exasperating GUI features Sylvia Else <sylvia@email.invalid> - 2022-02-03 10:19 +1100
    Re: One of the most exasperating GUI features Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2022-02-03 02:08 +0000

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