[Kde-pim] Disabling menu vs. putting a (disabled) item in it

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Thursday 15 February 2007 00:33, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> Hi Usability,
>
> While looking at some bits of KMail I found the reply menu. It's one
> of the RMB menus that comes up. If you RMB click on a displayed menu,
> you get
>
> Reply >
> Forward >
> ---
> ( ... and more )
>
>
> Choosing Reply gets you a sub-menu:
>
>
> Reply ...
> Reply to Author ...
> Reply to All ...
> Reply to Mailing-List ..
> Reply with template ...
> Reply to all with template ...

Hrmf. That should really be
  Reply with Template ...
  Reply to All with Template ...

> The last two are new in KDE 3.5.6. Now, the issue is what to do with
> those last two menu items. It is possible that there are no templates
> to use. So, what do we do then?
>
> 1) Right now, the item is enabled, but there is a single disabled
> item in the sub-sub-menu called "(no templates)".
>
> 2) To me, disabling the item itself (ie. if no templates, show "Reply
> with template ..." disabled) seems more sensible.

Yes, 2.

Regards,
Ingo
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