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Show Additional Monitor Resolutions in Mavericks
Authored by: Crazor on Nov 07, '13 07:49:46AM

Another example of Apple not following their own Human Interface Guidelines.
IIRC, the HIG states that if a control (menu Item, button etc.) changes it's behaviour while option is being held, the text of the control has to change when only the option key is being held. This makes "hidden" options somewhat discoverable for people who know about the "option-click" concept.
If you open the "Apple" menu, you can see a nice example of how the control texts change (also note the subtle hints about different behaviour with the disappearing ellipses).



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Show Additional Monitor Resolutions in Mavericks
Authored by: Makosuke on Nov 08, '13 10:07:06AM

Normally I'm pretty forgiving about a lot of Apple's design decisions, but this one, they really blew it on the HIG, and standard design in general--in addition to (as you point out) it not changing the text at all when you hold down option to indicate that will do anything, the way menus do, has ANY radio button on the MacOS, ever, worked that way before?

I've certainly never seen one.

(Despite having used the MacOS since System 6 and being very used to hidden things, I nearly bought SwitchResX, not realizing that this could be done until I ran across a post in a forum somewhere.)



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