In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Felix Miata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: :> :>Fred Gerlach wrote: :> :>> Felix Miata wrote (not writes): :> :>> :>Wolfi wrote: :>
<snip mindless tripe> :>> relief not having to click 10 million times just to get one simple task done. :>> The option is there. People who prefer not to have the menus automatically :>> open can make a fairly simple prefs change. :> :>Except a simple prefs change is not provided for. >From Steve Wendt's nice page at http://www.os2bbs.com/os2news/Warpzilla.html : [ If you don't like the mouse following the menus, you can add a delay to slow it down: user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", 7000); or stop it from happening (version 1.1 and later): user_pref("ui.submenuDelay", -1); ] seems simple enough to me... :> :>> The other key is that the default behavior should be consistent across :>> platforms. :> :>Absolutely not. If you like the windoze way better, then use windoze. :>OS/2 is the superior system, and predictably following orders instead of :>anticipating what you might want is one of the things that make it that :>way, the way it should stay, unless and until the OS/2 PM provides a :>system wide option to make a change. For the record, as it if really mattered, Windoze is the platform I use the least. Just because OS/2 does something one way does not bean that it is automatically the best. I've OS/2 as my primary desktop since version 1.3 and used it fairly often prior to that. If there is one thing that always ticks me off about OS/2 advocacy is the constant knee-jerking when even the slightest criticism is made. OS/2 was (and still is in many ways) ahead of its time when it was in its prime, but other platforms have caught up, and in a few cases moved ahead. :> :>> Having had to support users of single programs over 3-4 platforms :>> in the past, I must say that this is even more important with an application :> :>Predictability within the platform is superior to consistency across :>platforms. :> That is a subjective assessment. In most cross-platform cases I've dealt with, consistency of the tools used to get the job done were far more important than the platform. It's pointless to subvert the functionality of an application simply because the platform hasn't caught up with modern accessibility and usability concerns.
