On 11/01/18 00:05, Stephen Houston wrote:
Alt+right click lets you remove them.
I'm sure it's meant to. The first time I did it, there was indeed a little "Remove" button, but as both my hands were occupied (one holding the Alt key, the other holding down the right-hand corner of the touchpad), I didn't have a third hand to move the cursor and click on it before it vanished forever. This is a peculiarly thoughtless piece of interaction design.
Now when I try Alt right-click, I get a SIGSEGV and the old white console-style panel telling me this is very bad indeed but I can click on F1 to recover...which works, but Alt right-click on the exclamation marks now just creates a duplicate draggable question mark.
This is not very good. Someone is trying a bit too hard to be subtle about hiding how the interface works. OK, so it's E, and you expect the unexpected (which is why I like it), but I think I'll live without gadgets until someone comes up with a standard menu-driven way to add and remove them. As a usability principle of design consistency, the method used to add and remove stuff *anywhere* should be the same, regardless of what it is you are adding and removing. Having a different method for each type of object is fun and entertaining for a while, but not really useful.
It turns out that the actual technique is Alt right-tap-and-release on the touchpad. Your fingers are then free to use the left-click to target the Remove button. I don't usually have to experiment that much to find out how to make it work :-)
OK...now I know how to remove them...how would I add gadgets to the shelf at the bottom where they belong; where all the other ones are (clock, battery, temp, screen brightness, keyboard languauge, etc)?
Bryce is the equivalent of a shelf. Add A Bryce then alt+right click it to add gadgets to it. Bryce and new gadgets work like windows. Alt + mouse actions handle menus, resizing, moving, etc... the same way they would windows.
Thank you very much. I think I'll pass on Bryce. It sounds like a refinement I can happily do without, and takes up valuable space at the top or at the sides of my screen.
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