Ticket #3493 (closed task: fixed)
Switch "Local"/"User" buttons on menu selector
| Reported by: | mooffie | Owned by: | andrew_b |
|---|---|---|---|
| Priority: | trivial | Milestone: | 4.8.15 |
| Component: | mc-core | Version: | master |
| Keywords: | Cc: | ||
| Blocked By: | Blocking: | ||
| Branch state: | merged | Votes for changeset: | committed-master |
Description
The menu item "Command > Edit menu file" brings up the following dialog:
+------------- Menu edit --------------+
| Which menu file do you want to edit? |
|--------------------------------------|
| [ Local ] [ User ] |
+--------------------------------------+
The first button is "Local", and therefore has the focus. But since users are more likely to want to edit their central user menu, not the local menu, it's better to make the "User" button the first one.
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Change History
Changed 9 years ago by mooffie
- Attachment 3493-Switch-Local-User-buttons-on-menu-selector.patch added
comment:1 in reply to: ↑ description ; follow-up: ↓ 2 Changed 9 years ago by andrew_b
I think, the simplest way is move focus to "User" button without any other changes.
comment:2 in reply to: ↑ 1 Changed 9 years ago by mooffie
Replying to andrew_b:
I think, the simplest way is move focus to "User" button without any other changes.
Woa, I didn't know about query_set_sel(). I'll upload a "fixed" patch in a minute.
Changed 9 years ago by mooffie
- Attachment 3493-Menu-selector-make-User-not-Local-the-focused-button.patch added
comment:3 Changed 9 years ago by mooffie
(Feel free to ignore this comment.)
IMHO, this dialog is somewhat problematic. I always hesitate on its question, although I'm certainly not an MC novice. It's not quite clear what "local" and "user" mean. Another issue is the use of buttons. Perhaps radios would be more natural there.
I tried to play with some alternatives, just to see if we can arrive at something better:
(I created this in mc2 in a matter of minutes.)
But I don't think these alternatives are a substantial improvement, so let's put this issue to rest. Perhaps in the future we'll add a "Help" button for dialogs; this may alleviate the problem.
(Since I already mentioned mc2: it comes with a snippet that moves the focus to "User".)
comment:4 follow-up: ↓ 5 Changed 9 years ago by andrew_b
- Owner set to andrew_b
- Status changed from new to accepted
- Branch state changed from no branch to on review
- Milestone changed from Future Releases to 4.8.15
Branch: 3493user_menu_focused_button
Initial changeset:24cd2bae8d3fd0c652ca29dce1e24055e6299bf3
What about the same change for mcedit menu selector?
comment:5 in reply to: ↑ 4 Changed 9 years ago by mooffie
Replying to andrew_b:
What about the same change for mcedit menu selector?
Ooh, you're right. I didn't know we had this issue in yet another place.
What's the procedure? Should I post a patch that adds the fix, or should I post a patch that includes everything? I'll do both here, but let me know so I know what to do in the future.
"3493-just-mcedit.patch" is just the addition.
"3493-everything.patch" is everything.
comment:6 Changed 9 years ago by andrew_b
- Votes for changeset set to andrew_b
- Branch state changed from on review to approved
comment:7 Changed 9 years ago by andrew_b
- Status changed from accepted to testing
- Votes for changeset changed from andrew_b to committed-master
- Resolution set to fixed
- Branch state changed from approved to merged
Merged to master: [6c949566cbd6a2e34045ffa55df124401a89524f].
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