# "currently disabled" even when button shows that

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/currently-disabled-even-when-button-shows-that/39163
**Category:** UX
**Created:** [February 6, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/currently-disabled-even-when-button-shows-that/39163 "2016-02-06T20:38:39Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Xack](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/xack/32/116353_2.png) [@Xack](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Xack)
#### Post date: [February 6, 2016, 8:38pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/currently-disabled-even-when-button-shows-that/39163/1 "2016-02-06T20:38:39Z")

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![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/e/3e72d1060278a52f8ac9b01111b3e047384cc67b.png)

The picture above shows that the desktop notifications button is displaying it’s enabled, otherwise it would say “Enable notifications” and not “Disable notifications”. However, there’s a “(currently enabled)” next to it, which feels unneeded since the button shows it’s enabled anyway.

Just a minor nitpick. 😃

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### Author: ![fefrei](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/fefrei/32/119538_2.png) [@fefrei](https://meta.discourse.org/u/fefrei)
#### Post date: [February 7, 2016, 2:40pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/currently-disabled-even-when-button-shows-that/39163/2 "2016-02-07T14:40:17Z")

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Can’t we turn this into a checkbox, which has super clear non-duplicated semantics and fits in quite nicely?

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/4/5/4595fc215f43fd33c9906ad604c255f7800c71cc.png)

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### Author: ![riking](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/riking/32/170938_2.png) [@riking](https://meta.discourse.org/u/riking)
#### Post date: [February 13, 2016, 8:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/currently-disabled-even-when-button-shows-that/39163/3 "2016-02-13T20:57:31Z")

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Nope, because the button actually has four states. Permission needed, permission denied, permitted but off, permitted and on.

I added the “currently enabled” because the text on the button was confusing me as to what the current state is. If you have better text/icon combinations to use, please reply with them 🙂

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [February 14, 2016, 12:49am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/currently-disabled-even-when-button-shows-that/39163/4 "2016-02-14T00:49:32Z")

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> [@Xack](#):
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> However, there’s a “(currently enabled)” next to it, which feels unneeded since the button shows it’s enabled anyway

I agree with this, the presence of “disable” on the button means it is enabled. So I changed the `"(currently enabled)"` string to `""`.