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

  • From: "Axel Dörfler" <axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:57:51 +0100

Alexandre Deckner <alex@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> IOW, it sounds totally apropriate to use "drop down" in the guide. 
> The 
> web uses "drop down" to describe this particular uses of menus btw.
> It is even refered as "drop down _list_" sometimes.
> 
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drop-down_list
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pop-up_menu

Our BMenuFields are not drop down menus, as they don't open below the 
field - since they don't do that, calling them "drop down" is 
misleading and wrong IMO.
From the Wikipedia articles you qouted, it bested matches the 
description of OS X.

Bye,
   Axel.


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