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Bug 570026 - Don't hide "Tabs" menu when you don't have tabs
Don't hide "Tabs" menu when you don't have tabs
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78776
Product: gnome-terminal
Classification: Core
Component: general
git master
Other All
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: GNOME Terminal Maintainers
GNOME Terminal Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2009-01-31 21:22 UTC by Luca Ferretti
Modified: 2010-03-22 21:29 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.25/2.26

Attachments
Leaves the Tabs menu active even if all its items are inactive (587 bytes, patch)
2009-03-11 23:21 UTC, Simon van der Linden 		reviewed Details | Review

Description Luca Ferretti 2009-01-31 21:22:11 UTC 
As per HIG 

  Do not disable menu titles. Allow the user to explore
  the menu, even though there might be no available items
  on it at that time.

http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/menus-menubar.html
Comment 1 Simon van der Linden 2009-03-11 23:21:56 UTC 
Created attachment 130495 [details] [review]
Leaves the Tabs menu active even if all its items are inactive
Comment 2 Christian Persch 2009-03-12 17:24:37 UTC 
The patch is ok to fix this problem, but I'm not sure it *should* be fixed...
Comment 3 Simon van der Linden 2009-03-12 18:51:43 UTC 
I think it is rather confusing to have variable menu bar, and the HIG's argument that is quoted above seems reasonable.

Menus are something that we browse when we discover the application, and that we refer to later (at least this is the way I proceed). If a new menu appeared suddenly, we would probably miss it; and I believe the probability increases with the number of other changes to the interface (in this case, the new terminal and the tabs appear).

Moreover, in the case of gnome-terminal, there are no space issues; so I don't really see why we should hide it, except the fact that it is not applicable to a window with no tabs.

Could you argue a bit your point of view?
Comment 4 Behdad Esfahbod 2010-03-22 21:29:50 UTC 
Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 78776 ***