On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 01:53 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 05 janvier 2007 à 17:06 +0000, Calum Benson a écrit : > > Regular context menus, for selected icons and suchlike, are still > > best considered an expert feature; you'd be surprised how many > > Windows users have no idea they exist. > > > > Context menus for actual menu items, as we have on the Applications > > menu, are just bizarre and horrid, IMHO :) With a little bit of > > tweaking in the Add to Panel dialog, we could (and should) do away > > with them altogether. > > I don't think they should be removed. For people accustomed to context > menus, they are something you expect to find,
Why would they expect to find them? No other menu on the entire desktop has them. Indeed, half the menu items on the Applications menu don't even have them-- if you right-click on a sub-menu entry, which (assuming for the moment there's nothing wrong with this concept) is where some of those context menu entries actually ought to live, nothing happens. > and for others, they don't clutter the UI. No, but they do increase the risk of error. On every other menu, right-clicking does the same as left-clicking, and it's not difficult to absent-mindedly (or accidentally) right click on the Applications menu too. Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
