| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0020360 | MMW 5 | Main Panel: Toolbars & Menus | public | 2023-11-11 19:48 | 2026-09-22 18:07 |
| Reporter | zvezdan | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | high | Severity | minor | Reproducibility | always |
| Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
| Target Version | 2027.0 | Fixed in Version | 2027.0 | ||
| Summary | 0020360: Checked items in the menu should not have the whole item "highlighted", but only icon | ||||
| Description | There are several menus with items that have checked states without classic radio/check buttons, but the whole menu item looks as it is "hovered" or "highlighted". Those are Visualization, Main panel view and List toolbar dropdown. I suppose it is your way to make them visually distinctive from other menu items, because you cannot use radio/check icons for those menu items that already have their own icons. In my opinion, such look is not intuitive. Just look how is the View menu confusing with 3 different menu rows, beside of the standard (non-checked) items: 1. checked, 2. hovered and 3. heading. I don't know for any other program that have such menu items. But I know many programs that has such thing better solved with only the icon of checked menu item that is "sunken", i.e. highlighted. Even MM4 had it. There are many users that have poor vision, or maybe they are color-blind or have some other visual disability. Because of them Windows has these Contrast themes that I mentioned in another issue. Those themes use only limited number of very distinctive colors. Your View menu with 4 very similar background colors doesn't have such users on mind. I am currently working on my own high contrast skin and I am not so sure how I will represent 4 different background colors in just one single menu with that limited set of colors available by Windows themes. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
| Fixed in build | 3522 | ||||
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Verified 3521 |
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Re-opened, it does not look good when icons are missing, suggested alternatives image.png (178,227 bytes) |
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Fixed in 3522 |
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Well, I have managed this problem in my skin even with the old versions of the program, so I don't care about your solution. However, I think you missed the point since I specifically opened this issue for the checked items that _have_ icons, as I mentioned in the description. I forgot about the Search menu that you have on your screenshots, but I think it should be treated as another issue (0020437), i.e. the first 2 menu options should have radio buttons instead. Hence, there should be a menu separator between them and Advanced search. I will wait and see how you resolved it. |
