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Bug 667202 - Checkbox ambiguous
Checkbox ambiguous
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 644658
Product: gtk+
Classification: Platform
Component: Widget: Other
3.2.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gtk-bugs
gtk-bugs
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2012-01-03 18:33 UTC by Jack River
Modified: 2012-01-03 22:12 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Jack River 2012-01-03 18:33:18 UTC 
Hello,

The new checkbox in gtk3 is ambiguous. 

As a user of gnome and occasionaly xfce, the new gtk3-style check-box which is very confusing as it is now a slider with labels "on" and "off" so it is very difficult to at first sight see and understand what is the state of the option given, is it "on" when the slider is on top of the on label or is it on when the slider is on top of off? Is it off when the slider is on off or when the "checkbox" shows the label off? Please help, I dont want to make the wrong option as there is no way to tell what the option is anyway!

Also it takes up too much space compared to the old-style checkbox.

Is there a setting to use the real old-style, gtk2, checkbox? And not a slider and labels? 

Kind regards
Jack
Comment 1 Emmanuele Bassi (:ebassi) 2012-01-03 22:12:36 UTC 
the switch widget is not a GtkCheckButton: it's a completely separate widget, called GtkSwitch:

  http://developer.gnome.org/gtk3/stable/GtkSwitch.html

there are guidelines on where and how it should be used:

  https://live.gnome.org/GnomeOS/UX/Guidelines/SwitchWidget

and as for the labels, there already is a bug opened about them: bug 644658 - so I'm marking this one as a duplicate.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 644658 ***