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Bug 129902 - Add recommendation on the use of text styles in menu items
Add recommendation on the use of text styles in menu items
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-devel-docs
Classification: Applications
Component: hig
unspecified
Other All
: Normal enhancement
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Assigned To: HIG Maintainers
HIG Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2003-12-23 16:42 UTC by Reinout van Schouwen
Modified: 2020-12-04 18:19 UTC
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Description Reinout van Schouwen 2003-12-23 16:42:42 UTC 
The HIG offers no satisfying answer to this question:
http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2003-December/msg00129.html

So I suggest adding a recommendation on the use of text styles in menus.
It's not entirely obvious to me why no current desktop seems to use this.
Comment 1 Calum Benson 2003-12-24 12:54:09 UTC 
Some desktops certainly use such a thing-- the Windows styleguide
recommends using bold for the default menu item:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/dnwue/html/ch08b.asp (fig 8.2)

and OpenWindows draws a box around it. (OW has default items on all
menus incidentally, not just context menus).

Note that the HIG also states that the default action should always
appear at the top of any context menu:
http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/menus.html#menu-type-popup

so while a secondary 'default' indicator might be useful, it should
arguably never be necessary.
Comment 2 Allan Day 2014-09-26 14:38:42 UTC 
I'd prefer to keep the guidelines as slim as possible, and I don't generally see the use of bold in menus, so I assume that it's commonly understood not to do this.