Hi David
While you're correct for the most part, this doesn't apply to the
battery menu,s time/percentage choices. These are, in fact, reversed
for reasons that are unknown to me. They have a check mark next to the
item that is supposed to be shown, so the battery menu is much more
like a traditional menu. For some reason, though, when the check mark
is next to percentage, time shows up and when it is next to time,
percentage shows up. This is most definitely reversed.
In most other menus, you're absolutely correct about the approach most
Mac developers take. In safari, for example, when you see "hide
bookmarks bar" that is exactly what it will do when you push it, and
that menu item will change to "show bookmarks bar" to reflect that the
bookmarks bar is now hidden and will be shown if you activate that
menu choice. This just doesn't apply to the battery menu, however.
On Mar 1, 2009, at 17:15, David Poehlman wrote:
>
> HI all,
>
> Someone somewhere explained this better than I will a while back, but
> in the case of battery status for instance, what you are seeing is by
> design, it is reporting what will happen when you click it, not what
> is. so if you know this and you see status reported and time isted,
> you will kow that when you click status, you will see time reported
> and status listed.
>
> I hope I didn't confuse anyone with this. It is kind of like the
> light switches that are built so that they are up when they are off
> and down when they are on <grin>
>
>
> >
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