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. -- 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/>
