On or near 2/28/04 7:54 AM, Mickey Stevens at [EMAIL PROTECTED]
observed:

> 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.

I would urge each of you who has made suggestions here that you send your
suggestions to Microsoft via the Help->Send Feedback on Entourage menu. That
way it will be sure to reach the developers. I think there have been some
good ideas here.


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