On 2/26/04 11:34 AM, Julian Vrieslander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The notifications alert window contains three popup menu buttons.  Often I
> want to hit the snooze popup, and choose a particular delay.  But this
> control does not behave like normal OS X popups.
> 
> The normal behavior is that the menu pops up on the first mousedown.  You
> can release the mouse button, menu remains popped, you move to your
> selection, click again, and it closes.  But in the notifications alert, if I
> click on the snooze button and release, the window closes, and it assumes
> that I wanted some (short) default snooze value.  Since my fingers are
> trained to assume normal OS X popup menu behavior, I make this "mistake"
> very frequently.
> 
> Perhaps the Entourage developers consider this one-click-snooze behavior to
> be a feature.  I urge them to reconsider it.  If you want to implement a
> one-click snooze, perhaps you can provide a separate button for that,
> perhaps with an associated preference setting that determines its duration.

I disagree, actually. What you call popups, I call buttons that have a
secondary popup function. These buttons behave in exactly the same way as
many of the buttons in Entourage: Clicking the button immediately performs
the action (i.e. Send & Receive) but clicking and holding reveals a pop-up
window with more options (i.e. list of accounts). I would simply add the
down-arrow to the direct-right of the buttons so they appear the same as
other Entourage buttons (clicking directly on the arrow immediately drops
down the options).

Eddie Hargreaves

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