taskbar and system tray menus

Harold L Hunt II huntharo@msu.edu
Mon Jun 2 19:49:00 GMT 2003


Jack Tanner wrote:
  > It feels like bad UI to change the menu entry from underneath the user.
> My suggestion: make the default menu "Hide Root Window" with a (checked) 
> checkbox next to it. When the user clicks on "(checked) Hide Root 
> Window", show the root window and clear the cbeckbox. When the user 
> clicks on "(unchecked) Hide Root Window", hide the root window and set 
> the check again.

Right.  I didn't know that checkboxes were so easy when I implemented 
it.  I will probably change this, since I did the same sort of thing in 
my Morse Code Beeper that I just posted.

Harold



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