[kde-guidelines] Possible guidelines for buttons with menus

Heiko Tietze heiko.tietze at user-prompt.com
Mon Aug 5 13:16:07 UTC 2013


Am Montag, 5. August 2013, 15:02:26 schrieb Aurélien Gâteau:
> [Assuming this was meant for the list as well]
Oups. That's the problem with menu buttons! 

> > Why not use a dropdown containing "new plain session" and "new session
> > based on selected session" together with a push button "execute" (or just
> > a simple glyph)?
> 
> But that would require more clicks, right?
> 1. Click the dropdown
> 2. Select item
> 3. Click execute
> 
> I think this could be simplified into a menu button:
> 1. Click menu button
> 2. Select item => it executes the action

Only one click for the user but a huge step for the community :-).


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