> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:10:44AM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > If it does need a preference, I'm curious whether other applications
> > offer a "show toolbar"/"add toolbar" option and, if so, where they put
> > that option.
>
> The Mac OS X standard appears to be to have a menu item under "View"
> that's either "Hide Toolbar" if the toolbar is visible or "Show Toolbar"
> if it's not; it might also offer "Customize Toolbar...".
>
> I think at least one Windows app (probably Windows Explorer, i.e. the
> file manager; Internet Explorer might also do this) has an item uder
> "View" that's just "Toolbar", with a check mark or a bullet next to it
> indicating whether the toolbar is visible or hidden - selecting the item
> toggles the state.
>
> The GNOME Human Interface Guidelines indicates that a "Toolbar" or
> "Statusbar" checkbox menu item would appear in the "View" menu:
>
>
> http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/menus.html#menu-st
> andard-view
>
> I don't see anything obvious in the KDE UI guidelines on this, but I
> wouldn't be surprised if they followed that convention as well.
>
> So I'd add a "View" menu and put a "Toolbar" checkbox item under it,
> rather than (or in addition to) stuffing it into the GUI preferences.
Most (recent ??) Windows apps also allow a right click context menu on the
toolbar that gives the option of turning toolbar(s) on and off.
Graham Bloice