Le lundi 24 septembre 2007, à 17:14 +0100, Calum Benson a écrit : > 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.
Fixing this lack of menu behavior is something that is being considered for new applets. However, I don't think we'll end up with a menu behavior for launchers; any idea on how to fix this inconsistency? > > 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 Heh. I'd love to see some work from the usability team there :-) Maybe I can bribe some people with ice cream to help? Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
