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Re: Re: Menu in a Dialog???: msg#00393

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Subject: Re: Re: Menu in a Dialog???

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Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> On Thursday 24 October 2002 11:28, Alex wrote:
>> Can a modal dialog box have a menu?
>> How to add it?
>
> Are you _sure_ you have to do that?
>
> Using menu bars in dialog boxes is a GUI design flaw mentioned in
> several books including GUI Bloopers: http://www.gui-bloopers.com/

See also the official KDE User Interface Guidelines:
"Dialogs should never have menu bars or tool bars inside them."
(http://developer.kde.org/documentation/standards/kde/style/dialogs/index.html)
But of course: "The guidelines in this style guide are only suggestions
- - they are not set in stone."

Regards,
Ingo

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