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Re: One of the most exasperating GUI features

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On 23-Jan-22 7:58 pm, Sylvia Else wrote:
> 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.
> 
> Sylvia.

Seems I had inadvertently pressed one of function keys at some point, 
which changed something making the desired option unavailable.


That's another pet peeve - function keys and hot keys generally that 
change things in unobvious ways that the user won't know how to undo, or 
even realise has been done.

To my mind, the default for such keys should be that they are disabled. 
Let the user choose to use hot keys if desired, but don't impose them by 
default.

Sylvia.

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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 Ian McCall <ian@eruvia.org> - 2022-02-02 13:21 +0000
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        Re: One of the most exasperating GUI features not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2022-02-02 22:18 +0000
  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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