Issue 81255

Summary:	When a context- or sub-menu has no usable submenus, gray it out
Product:	General	Reporter:	raindrops <na1000>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	ACCEPTED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Trivial
Priority:	P3	CC:	issues, jogi
Version:	OOo 2.3.0 RC1	Keywords:	usability
Target Milestone:	AOO Later
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	DEFECT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description raindrops 2007-09-04 14:16:22 UTC

In the context menu, there are some options that have no submenus.
The only thing you see is <No selection possible> in gray.

In such case, showing the menu option itself is wasteful. Gray it out.

Example:
1. Insert a shape (e.g. smiley)
2. Select it and r-click. Check out the "alignment" menu. It has no options.
In this case, it would be better to either remove that option or to gray it out.

Comment 1 michael.ruess 2007-09-04 16:22:18 UTC

Reassigned to ES.

Comment 2 eric.savary 2007-09-05 13:23:26 UTC

@CD: AFAIK, we cannot change this.

Comment 3 eric.savary 2007-09-05 14:20:34 UTC

Comment 4 carsten.driesner 2007-09-05 14:29:44 UTC

cd: This issue must be discussed with mmp, who is reponsible for our menus. From
my point of view this would be a good idea as we already do it for the menu bar.
Target must be discussed with user experience team.

Comment 5 jogi 2008-09-05 11:59:37 UTC

Also the menus (main) have sub menus (format) where sub-entries are not usable
at that time but they are not greyed out (Format/Arrange)...

Comment 6 jogi 2008-09-05 12:00:15 UTC

changed to framework as component

Comment 7 edeku 2008-09-05 12:06:12 UTC

Please, don't remove submenus, but gray it out.

Comment 8 bitsfritz 2008-09-06 01:20:18 UTC

I'd also like to see grayed "masters" on gray "slaves" in favour of hiding them.