Hello all, hope I'm still allowed here. Sorry if my humor was tooo straight.
On Mon, 5 Sep 2011 17:17:34 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote: > > no. there isn't. e's menu behavior is 1 size fits all here. this > means submenus always open in a predicable direction/location > allowing for better muscle-memory. this is in fact a conscious > decision NOT to do it the way qt/gtk do as i have found that way much > more annoying as you have to figure out which way the menu opened > this time (as well as having to adjust the arrow display and so on > which looks totally odd when you have multiple arrows pointing at > eachother). also when a menu is wider than the screen (really low res > screen maybe) you cant scroll along to read it with the "change > direction" mode. as well as some child menus opening to the right, > some to the left depending how wide they are. overall not a good look > imho. :) Carsten, I fully agree with you here. The more complicated an approach gets, the more it was wrong from the very beginning. But that's also why I rather wished to see this (early days) menu die for a dialog/card-view (at least optionally.) Also, the left-click menue action conflicts with the elsewhere common left-click rubber-band selection of desktop icons, for example. Btw., the placement of the desktop icons seems to be broken. I can't make the icons to stay on a line. They just jump away to ramdom places (not in a grid or on a line, rather diogonally or on a sinus wave.) > > So, this has become quite a long post. But I really like E17 > > already a lot, and what to learn how to use it effectively and > > efficiently. So thanks for your patience, everyone, and keep up the > > good work! > > Alex I fully agree! E17 is promising but also quite a jungle of new or just different ideas. And some look a bit dangerous from my point of view, like how freely themes control desktop behaviour (could a dialog become invisible but still fetch clicks, for example?) Well, I'll possibly learn about this after my first self-written minesweeper in edje :) Best wishes, Dennis Heuer ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Special Offer -- Download ArcSight Logger for FREE! Finally, a world-class log management solution at an even better price-free! And you'll get a free "Love Thy Logs" t-shirt when you download Logger. Secure your free ArcSight Logger TODAY! http://p.sf.net/sfu/arcsisghtdev2dev _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list enlightenment-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
