Looking back on this, thinking about it more, and seeing it live… I feel like I don’t really like any of the proposed solutions. I think @hawk’s right in that we’re adding complication, and I’m not sure there’s a clear benefit.
The root problem stated was “don’t show a checkbox button if I can’t uncheck it.” I’m not sure we’ve encountered actual problems or confusion because of this? Even so the simplest solution to that originally described problem would have been to just drop the box around the checkmark for users that can’t select/deselect the solution.
This is a good point too. How common is it to unmark a solution once it’s marked? 1 in 100? 1 in 1,000? Now we have a superfluous label for an uncommon situation.
I’m not sure it helps all that much. It does help avoid some of the spacing issues created in the current implementation by isolating the spacing issues…
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vs the mockup
It also draws more attention to it, which doesn’t help with the complication complaint… plus it introduces a new style that doesn’t already exist in the post controls, and it’s a new button style that doesn’t feel valuable enough to me to justify adding.
We’ve already come this far, so I could fix some of the spacing issues and add the border to see how it feels…