On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:48 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > Besides the lack of a global menu bar, which John Stowers mentioned, > another irritant interaction-wise is inconsistency in behavior between > panel applets. Some applets do something on a single click, others > don't, and there's no way to tell which just by looking. Some applets > do something on a double click, others don't, and there's no way to > tell which just by looking. Some applets open a menu or menu-like > control, but they differ in whether they make it look like a menu, and > if you mouse down on the wrong one you can't slide over to the correct > one like you can with a normal menu bar. > > It would be really neat if the panel could make these behaviors > consistent.
To be fair to applet developers, this is partly a HIG issue too-- we have very little there about applet interaction at the moment. This is about the sum total, in fact: http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/2.20/input-mouse.html.en#mouse-interaction-applets Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] GNOME Desktop 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
