"ghost" fill options for 3d curves
Apparently the FILL option only works with 2D (not 3D) curves.
If that is true, the options should be GHOSTED when a curve is switched to 3D.
One of the things that makes Blender so hard to learn is the inconsistent application of hiding context inappropriate options in the UI: sometimes they vanish TOTALLY, which is confusing because you can no longer find them (but defended as "buhhh they're naaaat appropriate....") or they're seemingly left visible, but non-operative.
Whereas ghosting would work better in almost all cases to cue the user that currently, the option is inappropriate.
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That is not true actually, the fill option controls which "quarters" of the curve bevel are built. Try it out!
I'm not thrilled with how Blender handles non-usable functions in general. It's a bit of an anti-pattern to have parameters that simply disappear when they aren't available. For example, all the options that just vanish when you switch renderers leads to so much confusion-- "Where was that option I had a minute ago??... I could swear it was here..." Instead, Blender could gray out the option--and trying to change a grayed out option could pop-up a tooltip like, "This option only available when using Cycles renderer". I'm sure this has been discussed to death in a million different contexts..