Re: [Inkscape-devel] NEW: Gtkmmified Document Preferences Dialog

On Dec 13, 2005, at 9:57 AM, Ralf Stephan wrote:

You mean I cannot legally substitute

  a checkbutton saying "Show Grid"

with

  a radiobutton saying

  "The grid will be
   o  shown
   o  hidden"?

Generally not.

Aside from taking up more space, most user expectations would conflict with the latter.

For example, in my mail program, one "Junk Mail" page of preferences has "Enable junk mail filtering" as a single checkbox, but three different "When junk mail arrives" options as three radio buttons (leave it in inbox and flag, move to junk mailbox, or perform custom actions)

The HIG section on checkboxes is at http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/controls-check- boxes.html

and radio buttons are at http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/2.0/controls-radio- buttons.html