On Sun, Nov 26, 2017 at 3:40 AM, Liam Proven <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 November 2017 at 11:50, Matt Rice <[email protected]> wrote: >> Cool project, was curious if you had/were planning on implementing the >> right click behavior where >> instead of bringing up the windowmaker vertical menu, right click on >> the root window brings up the >> main menu of the currently active application. Given the >> workspace/shelf the windowmaker menu >> seems a bit superfluous > > Please bottom-post on mailing lists.
Sure, usually do since everyone else was top-posting though :D > I have done a little experimenting with this on people, both with RISC > OS -- https://www.riscosopen.org/content/ -- which always and only > works this way, and with the ROX desktop -- > http://rox.sourceforge.net/desktop/. > > I find it _really_ confuses people who come from more mainstream > desktops with permanently-visible menus: both the Windows and Mac > families. On NeXT it had to be enabled in preferences IIRC, by default the mouse had 2 buttons, but both performed the same function, and there was a preference for enabling the 2nd mouse button. > Whereas I like it, I think GNUstep should stick to the NeXT model for > now. It is part of what makes it distinctive. I agree. > However, a more conventional & widely-available menu-accelerator key > would be a good thing. Either the PC-style Alt for menus, Ctrl for > actions (e.g. Alt-F for File, Ctrl-O for open) or a Mac-style Super > key (Super-O = open, Super-X = cut, etc.) > > -- > Liam Proven • Profile: https://about.me/liamproven > Email: [email protected] • Google Mail/Talk/Plus: [email protected] > Twitter/Facebook/Flickr: lproven • Skype/LinkedIn/AIM/Yahoo: liamproven > UK: +44 7939-087884 • ČR/WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal: +420 702 829 053 _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
