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In https://phabricator.kde.org/D4838#91010, @colomar wrote: > In https://phabricator.kde.org/D4838#91009, @subdiff wrote: > > > I thought of something like this: F2668672: Screenshot_20170228_114914.png <https://phabricator.kde.org/F2668672> > > Is this in line with the HIG? > > > That's the idea we've discussed above and yes, it is in line with the HIG. Okay, personal opinion on why split buttons are among the most horrible things related to UX: (And whilst some of these points might not apply to this very specific use case here: they will elsewhere, and once one component users this button, others will too, see e.g. spectacle) - They are very prone to accidental clicks. If you want to click the (little) arrow but hit the button instead, worst case you get an undoable, destructive action. This gets a lot worse with touch. - They are horrible for handicapped people. Screen readers usually don't handle them properly, so these people are only aware of one action, and might not be able to see the others - They are horrible for keyboard based navigation (see above on not applying for this very specific use case): which button presses them? Which one opens then? - Space. These buttons have text on them, text that is translatable and might be a lot bigger in e.g. German. The buttons in notifications already suffer from this (e.g. bluetooth received files, in German) and it only gets worse if you add multiple options and an additional arrow - They would obviously not work well with multiple items as per the example above, if you e.g. wanted item specific actions What would work are either context menus as proposed (touch is going to be meh though, as I just learned that we can't properply do long press anywere) or a button that only has the purpose of opening a menu, e.g.: hamburger button. REPOSITORY R120 Plasma Workspace REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D4838 EMAIL PREFERENCES https://phabricator.kde.org/settings/panel/emailpreferences/ To: broulik, #plasma, #vdg Cc: Fuchs, subdiff, colomar, plasma-devel, progwolff, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, apol
