Context Menus & Options

Saturday, October 8. 2005

Context Menus & Options

burn_context I’d like to say that I am quite proud that amaroK has no context menu which has more than 9 entries. We like to keep options minimal, and our settings toolbar menu has only 11 entries.

But there is one thing which has been bothering me, and I don’t know the answer. I’ll be specific. amaroK has the ability to write cds if k3b is installed. There is always a burn menu in the context menus, which is menu entry is disabled if k3b was not found during compilation.

Is it better to remove entries which can never be used by the user, or to keep them disabled, and hence alert the user that such features are available?

I’m strongly leaning to the former, and remove anything that can’t be directly used. After all, the user would need to recompile/install the application to gain advantage and be able to use the this feature.

Posted by Seb Ruiz in sebr at 21:46 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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i understand that this is an old post, but i would prefer "keep them disabled"

as you said, this informs user about features he might not find out other wise. additionally, it helps a lot when you are looking for a particular feature - you don't know where it is, but you are looking and looking and looking...
if it is disabled, you can find out why it is disabled and how to enable it.

#1 richlv on 2005-12-11 15:58 (Reply)

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