Description of problem: Having enabled desktop effects, if you go to System/Preferences/Look and Feel/Desktop Effects, you are presented with "Enable Desktop Effects" even though desktop effects are already enabled, and if you click it, it disables desktop effects. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel 2.6.22.1-41.fc7 gnome version 2.18.3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enable desktop effects by visiting System/Preferences/Look and Feel/Desktop Effects 2. Visit System/Preferences/Look and Feel/Desktop Effects again 3. Notice that even though desktop effects are enabled, you are presented with "Enable Desktop Effects" and that the behaviour of the button is to disable desktop effects Actual results: Clicking "enable desktop effects" disables desktop effects in this instance. Expected results: The button should change to "disable desktop effects"
Problem still present in latest f7
Same situation in f8. According to bug 214946, it's by design.
If the button is a toggle button, then the button label should also toggle to indicate a change in state. This is clearly a bug. This is clearly a bug...nobody in their right mind designs a user interface that allows a button label to do exactly the opposite of what it is labelled to do.
It seems that the button indicates its state by changing its colour. However, it certainly isn't intuitive.
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The Desktop Effects "Enable Desktop Effects" button simply isn't clear that it is a toggle button, especially to new users. Given that it isn't clear, it is very confusing that you have to click "Enable Desktop Effects" to disable desktop effects.
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