157984 – Use of "show/hide" vs. checkmarked actions

Bug 157984 - Use of "show/hide" vs. checkmarked actions

Summary: Use of "show/hide" vs. checkmarked actions

Status:	NEW

Alias:	None

Product:	Community
Classification:	Eclipse Foundation
Component:	UI Guidelines (show other bugs)
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	PC Windows XP

Importance:	P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone:	---
Assignee:	ui.guidelines-inbox
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Reported:	2006-09-20 09:19 EDT by Martin Aeschlimann
Modified:	2022-12-04 15:51 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Description Martin Aeschlimann

2006-09-20 09:19:29 EDT

M2

In the Window menu, there's a new item 'Hide toolbar'. When activated, the action is renamed to 'Show toolbar'
Dynamic action labels should be avoided. It complicates the assignment on mnemonics, documentation, shortcut assignment and so on.

A better solution is probably to implement this action as a checked action.

Comment 1 Kim Horne

2006-09-20 10:56:24 EDT

Guideline 3.1 suggests the correct behavior for push and toggle buttons but does not suggest when they should be used.  Changing labels from Show to Hide is common behavior on all OS X apps and I (being a Mac snob) followed that lead.  I've asked for clarification on 3.1 and will proceed based on that.

Comment 2 Susan McCourt

2009-07-15 12:57:30 EDT

I didn't see a blocking UI guidelines bug so I'm moving this to the UI guidelines for clarification/comment.  This can be moved back to platform UI once there is resolution on the guidelines.

Comment 3 Eclipse Genie

2015-01-11 15:58:29 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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Comment 4 Eclipse Genie

2017-01-01 14:04:43 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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Comment 5 Eclipse Genie

2018-12-23 06:16:59 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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Comment 6 Eclipse Genie

2020-12-13 03:44:27 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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Comment 7 Eclipse Genie

2022-12-04 15:51:51 EST

This bug hasn't had any activity in quite some time. Maybe the problem got resolved, was a duplicate of something else, or became less pressing for some reason - or maybe it's still relevant but just hasn't been looked at yet.

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