Re: [Libreoffice] [PATCH] Introduce HideDisabledMenuItems style setting

On Wednesday 27 of April 2011, Christian Lohmaier wrote:
> Hi Christian, *,
>
> On Thu, Apr 21, 2011 at 3:44 PM, Christian Dywan <christian@lanedo.com> 
wrote:
> > I'm introducing a setting that decides if disabled menu items should be
> > hidden. Currently the code is broken in the sense that items are hidden
> > if disabled on all platforms and UpdateApplicationSettings which
> > theortically does that is a) counter-intuitive and b) not set by
> > platforms.
>
> I'm not sure I understand.
> I absolutely would hate it when the disabled menu-items were hidden
> instead of just greyed out.
>
> Why would you want to have that dependent on the Desktop-environment?
> Either the user wants to hide them (but I doubt they really do want
> that), or the user doesn't want it (like me).
>
> So why should LO behave differently on KDE vs Gnome vs Windows in this
> regard?

 Because platform integration means LO should act like other native 
applications of that platform (as much as possible and reasonable). If e.g. 
KDE popups act in a certain way, then KDE user will certainly prefer if LO 
popups acted the same way, and if Windows 8 decides that all icons should be 
pink on green, then probably LO on W8 should paint icons that way too.

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 l.lunak@suse.cz