D13064: reimplemented drop-down menu arrow in toolbuttons in case of instant inline popup

[Nathaniel Graham]

ngraham added a comment.


  'Fraid I gotta disagree with you on this one, @abetts. I think it's important to signal that these buttons will bring up a menu because without that, there is no way to distinguish it from an ordinary action button. It's the same reason why comboboxes have arrows rather than looking like a pushbutton.
  
  But there's a deeper reason. With the downward-pointing arrow, users are signaled that the button doesn't initiate an action (which may be unknown, non-undoable, possibly dangerous, etc), but rather displays a menu of textual, easy-to-understand options. In essence, the arrow says, "this is safe, go ahead and click me even if you don't know what I might do". Without the arrow, fearful users might avoid clicking on the menu button because they don't know what it will do and nothing hints at them that the button brings up a benign menu rather than immediately executing a possibly unknown action.

REPOSITORY
  R31 Breeze

REVISION DETAIL
  https://phabricator.kde.org/D13064

To: hpereiradacosta, ngraham, abetts
Cc: plasma-devel, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol, mart
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