[haiku-development] Re: Working on Haiku's Mail app

  • From: "Humdinger" <humdingerb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:27:01 +0100

-- Rene Gollent, on Thu, 3 Dec 2009 16:05:46 -0600:
> On Thu, Dec 3, 2009 at 4:02 PM, François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> up"? Drop-down is more correct IMO, as the menu drops "down" and
> >> doesn't pop "up" on activation.
> >
> > Well it does pop up in the sense of the Z-order...

What doesn't? :)

> That and it only "drops down" in the spatial sense if there is
> room...if the control summoning the menu is at or near the bottom of
> the screen, the menu will open upwards instead since that's where the
> available space to open the menu is. As such I'd be for sticking to
> the popup name as well since drop down doesn't accurately describe
> either its behavior or its control name.

It's just a question of terminology in the user guide.
From a user perspective, for me, a "pop-up" materialized from out of 
nowhere, like a pop-up browser window with advertisement, bang!. A 
"drop-down" menu is something that's already there, the menu itself 
with its current setting. Clicking on it will not bang itself into 
existence, but gently drop down the formerly concealed menu items... :)

Nevertheless, if the API and coders refer to it as pop-up we may just 
as well call it that in the user guide... No biggie.

Regards,
Humdinger

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