On 2/27/04 10:21 PM, "Eddie Hargreaves" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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). I really like that idea! That seems more intuitive than the current behavior, in my opinion. -- Mickey Stevens (Microsoft MVP for Office:mac) PowerPoint FAQ featuring PowerPoint:mac: <http://www.pptfaq.com/> Entourage Help Page: <http://www.entourage.mvps.org/toc.html> -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
