3. The fastest menu to reach is the one located where you already are. Fitts' Law.
Then again, the HIG says on popup-menus: "Popup menus need to be as simple as possible to maximize their efficiency. Do not place more than about ten items on a popup menu, and do not use submenus." http://developer.gnome.org/projects/gup/hig/1.0/menus.html#menu-type-popup I count 17 items in the popup menu (in 1.4.5) for the email to which I'm responding, including two submenus. I'm not sure what it would have in 2.0, though. -Mark Gordon On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 12:20, Anna Marie Dirks wrote: > Hi there, Radek. > > Yes, I would add an item to the context menu as well. Here's why: > > 1. There are people, especially those who are accustomed to using > Windows systems, who take great comfort in the presence of a > context menu. If you ever watch Keelyn or Clara (both of whom > are very experienced Windows users) use Evolution, you'll find > that they constantly right-click on messages, because they think > of this as being the quickest and easiest way to understand what > the options related to a given message are. People have as many > different ways of filing their email as they do of tying their > shoes. :) Our job is to accomodate them (as is practical given > our available resources), not to pass judgment on the relative > value of their patterns. > 2. The context menu gives the impression of containing a complete > list of the actions available for a given message. To omit this > command would be to sacrifice the integrity of the context menu. > (Because one couldn't rely on the context menu for a complete > list of one's options anymore.) Doubt! Despair! Dejection! > > Does that make sense? > > best, > Anna > > On Thu, 2003-10-02 at 08:02, Radek Doulík wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 22:32, Anna Marie Dirks wrote: > > > Yes, a keyboard shortcut would be good. > > > > > > We are going to need to redo the menus a bit for 2.0. They are currently > > > badly organized, and full of cruft. When I am preparing the menu spec > > > for 2.0, I will include a proposed keybinding for this.. I can't hope to > > > tell you off the top of my head which letters will be available at that > > > time, though. :) > > > > do you think it's also necessary to have [No]Spam in popup menu? I think > > when it's already available on toolbar and in menu there's no reason to > > have it in popup as well - it easier reachable by mouse on toolbar (one > > click) > > > > cheers > > Radek > > > > > > > > cheers, > > > Anna > > > > > > > > > > > > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 16:16, Mark Gordon wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2003-10-01 at 12:27, Radek Doulík wrote: > > > > > > > > > * new [No]Spam button on toolbar and item in menubar > > > > > Actions/[No]Spam. when message was identified as Spam, > > > > > button/item says NoSpam to revive the message from Spam folder > > > > > (spam flag is set to false and incoming message filters are > > > > > applied). For nospam messages it says spam to mark message as > > > > > Spam (spam flag is set to true and message is moved to Spam > > > > > folder). > > > > > > > > It would probably be good to have this in a context (right-click) menu > > > > as well. A keyboard shortcut might not be a bad idea, though I'm not > > > > completely sure what key combination I'd want to assign to it. Anna? > > > > > > > > -Mark Gordon > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
