v15 – Label Visibility Dialog: “All” setting overrides Individual settings

[Paolo F Cantoni]

As a user, I expected a direct interaction between the arc functionality "Hide All Labels" and "Set Label Visibility...".  I've been using EA for over a decade and never noticed this effect before.  I (quite reasonably I thought) expected that when I set "Hide All Labels" and then opened the "Set Label Visibility..."  Dialog, the labels would all be set to [ ] (do not show).  Similarly, if I had manually hidden all labels, the "Hide All Labels" menu item would convert to "Show All Labels".  In other words, I'd previously seen it as the missing [ ] Show All, [ ] Hide All checkboxes from the dialog - these WOULD mark/unmark the whole set of labels accordingly.

It seems that they are two distinct pieces of functionality.  "Hide/Show All Labels" menu item is an override which has NO bearing on the state of the individual labels. It should more precisely be called "Hide/Show All Labels (Override)" so that the exact nature of its functionality is correctly described.

Thoughts?
Paolo

[qwerty]

Human logic doesn't count on planet Sparx. And definitely they don't have any style guide. I think it's futile to go after every bit and piece which is wrong in the EAUI.

q.