Inconsistent visual treatment of inactive menu entries

General Discussion
#1

If a user opens Mp3tag without files or just does not select any, many entries from the menus become inaccessible. And that is indicated by them being grayed out

But if such entry has its own entries [i.e. serves as a sub-menu], then it is accessible and as such in full view, with only its child entries being inaccessible / grayed out. This exception is experienced in case of

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and all of the user's multi-level defined Actions [Actions menu within menu - a multilevel Actions menu - #8 by Florian]


I do not know if this is a bug, something overlooked by the developer or an intended choice - but in current state of affairs we have an inconsistency in Mp3tag

I propose treating sub-menu as all other entries, thus also to gray them out; but also leave the ability to see their [inaccessible] nested entries if that is possible

#2

Disabling the submenu anchor would mean that you cannot open the submenu and therefore not see what is in the submenu.
So I think that an enabled submenu anchor represents accurately the state of its function.

Do you know any other application that shows a different behaviour in this respect as you claim that this is

and even

?

I just had a look at LibreOffice Writer and that features a number of submenu anchors that are enabled although none of the functions in the submenu is enabled - which means that this program behaves just like MP3tag.

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Here is another application:

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and another one:
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#3

But of course:

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Because otherwise I would not have said that

but my then

is still valid as we do have an inconsistency in Mp3tag. Its simply the question if this was intended and if it is possible to

You say that this cannot be done. I would like to hear others speaking about this, especially the developer

#4

It would be interesting to see what the first application hides in the submenu "Image rotation", and why "Analysis" is still enabled, the second appliction shows "Acquire Image" with an enabled submenu and for the 3rd I don't know if there are any "Repair" tools defined or nothing has been added yet.
And it is this uncertainty that can easily be turned into knowledge with enabled submenu anchors.

Also, your examples show that apparently it is possible to have both, enabled and disabled submenu anchors and that this way of implementation is no

neither in MP3tag nor in other applications.
Your

leads nowhere, IMHO. you have seen that

has implemented it in this way - and an implementation does not happen randomly or accidentally it has to be

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