[PATCH setup 0/4] Use a pop-up menu to select chooser view filter

[Corinna Vinschen]

On Aug 26 15:41, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 26/08/2016 09:07, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Aug 25 15:34, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote:
> > > On 2016-08-25 14:11, Jon Turney wrote:
> > > > On 24/08/2016 17:50, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > > > > One question: Usually the popup menu itself reflects the current choice.
> > > > > So, wouldn't it make more sense to have the text "View" just as plain
> > > > > text to the left, and the actual popup menu next right to it, showing
> > > > > the current choice?  Yes?  No?  Shut up?
> > > > 
> > > > Yeah, there is probably better visual language to be used here.
> > > > 
> > > > If the popup menu itself reflects the current choice, perhaps we don't
> > > > need a caption with the current choice at all (i.e. just a button that
> > > > says "View" and that's all...)
> > > > 
> > > > I'd really like that button to have a '▾' to indicate it has a
> > > > drop-down, but that seems hard to achieve.
> > > > 
> > > > (This might be done with the BS_SPLITBUTTON style (which combines a
> > > > button and dropdown menu), but that is sadly only supported by common
> > > > controls on Vista or later.)
> 
> Two more patches follow this mail, which do that.
> 
> I'm still not totally happy with this.  It could give the impression that
> something is supposed to happen when the "View" part of the the button is
> clicked, and there is no keyboard shortcut to open the view selection menu.

Looks like I didn't explain well enough what I meant.  What I had in
mind was a pull-down menu just as you did, but which reflects the
current state in its text.  The word "View" would just show up in fixed
text field left of it.  I. e.:

         +--------------------+
   View: | Category       | v |
         +--------------------+

After the user chooses "Pending":

         +--------------------+
   View: | Pending        | v |
         +--------------------+

I think this is what most users expect from this pull-down menu style,
isn't it?


Thanks,
Corinna

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