[maemo-developers] GtkAction vs. AppMenu

[From: Murray Cumming]

On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 18:38 +0200, Alberto Garcia wrote:
[snip]
> Toggle-like radio buttons
> are quite common too in many user interfaces.

Not that I can think of.

> For Fremantle it has been decided that the way to show radio buttons
> it to make them look like toggle buttons,

Fair enough. The Fremantle UI guidelines are out of our control,
unfortunately.

>  and applications have been
> designed with that in mind (and that includes making sure that radio
> buttons and toggle buttons are not mixed in a way that can confuse the
> user).
[snip]

Well, toggle buttons that act like radio buttons is confusing. But given
that the Fremantle UI guidelines force us to have them, surely the very
existence of any real radio buttons will confuse the user, making them
even less likely to understand that these non-radio-radio-buttons
actually act like radio buttons. So I still feel that you should just
change the appearance of radio buttons and thus make both the UI and API
simpler.

Of course, I know it's too late to change any of this now, so I'm just
complaining. These kinds of mistakes are always made when development is
allowed to be done in isolation for a while, just as the initial Maemo
API had many obvious mistakes.

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