Comment on Should a toggle button show its current state or the state to which it will change?

calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• SmartmanApps@dotnet.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  @calcopiritus @starman
  Buttons/switches trigger an immediate action, whereas checkboxes usually do not (such as on a settings page, where no changes are applied unless you click "save").

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never said nothing about a button. Toggles are just check boxes with a different aspect.

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    • SmartmanApps@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      This whole thread is about buttons Image

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      • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Toggle buttons are not normal buttons, they are toggles. Which have the same functionality as check boxes. They are a toggle between 2 states. The only difference is visual.

        If they toggle more than 2 states, (like a discrete slider), it is the same as a drop-down menu.

        Some widgets are the exact same as others, where the only difference is their visual representation.

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• jeremyparker@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  The case that undermines your point is icon toggles, since they don’t need a label, but a checkbox does. For example, dark mode icon buttons: They usually show sun or moon icons, which hits OP’s point: if your in dark mode, and the button shows a moon, that would make sense – except the button doesn’t put you into dark mode, at that point it puts you into light mode, so, shouldn’t it show the sun?

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  • calcopiritus@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    In the specific case of a dark mode, it doesn’t matter since the whole aspect of the app changes. You could not label the individual states and it’d be fine.

    Also, as soon as you add another theme it does no longer work, for a theme selector you need a drop-down selector which lists all the themes.

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    • jeremyparker@programming.dev ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      That’s true, you can’t really miss what’s happening with a dark mode switch – it’s not like it’s a “charge me $50 extra for insurance on my shredded wheat” button.

      The theme selector tho – while rare – IDK, that doesn’t have have text – it probably should, for the same if a11y, but you can indicate the theme with an image; the one I made for a project recently uses the image itself on the button.

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