Mark Sargent wrote: > I find this really stupid. To have something in a menu that doesn't > allow you to do anything. If it is not a function for that user, it > shouldn't appear in the menu at all, period. Incidentally, the Gnome HIG (Human Interface Guidelines) disagrees with you: # Do not remove command items from the menu when they are unavailable, # make them insensitive instead. This allows the user to infer what # functionality the application provides even if it is not currently # available, and keeping the menu structure static makes it easier to # memorize. (http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/menus-design.html) The question remains: is there enough functionality left in the program to justify making the option insensitive. The example the HIG gives is to disable "Revert" when the user hasn't made any changes: it's fairly obvious in that case why you can't revert. In this case, it will *not* be obvious to a Normal User whether and why they can or cannot mount filesystems. The error message does provide some functionality, and providing the explanation does help the user interface. So it's arguable that it's a bug in the HIG. It's arguable that it's a bug in Fedora. I doubt you'll get changes in FC3: you could try FC4 test 1, due out on Monday, and bugzilla that. Or you could ask the GNOME project to clarify the HIG. Good luck! James. -- E-mail address: james | The end result of 1000 years of ransacking other @westexe.demon.co.uk | people's language and grammar is a language of almost | infinite flexibility. Why - we can even understand the | Americans! -- Phil Launchbury
