Fred Gerlach wrote: > Felix Miata wrote (past tense, not writes, which is not past tense):
> :>Fred Gerlach wrote: > :>> Felix Miata wrote (not writes): > :>> 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... Simple only to a complex mind that can remember after creating or migrating a new profile with no bookmarks where to look or even whether to look and what to look for and where to look for it in order to edit a file on disk, when most commonly used prefs have a UI built into the app. Simple, not. The problem is not so much whether you or I know. The bigger problem is a user new to Mozilla. > :>> 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. I use windoze only enough to get infuriated by such stupidity as chasing menus. Linux is no less guilty. You just wait till your mouse hand is constantly crippled and irritated by arthritis and see how much you like having to go back to the beginning several times before reaching a third or deeper menu or bookmarks level. > :>> 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 More often cross-platform is a choice. Some people find one platform sufficient, and find it rude that people want to kill what makes it so by changing it to be like something else that isn't clearly better. > with, consistency of the tools used to get the job done were far more That's all well and good if the features themselves consistently superior. This particular feature has been an abomination since its inception. > 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. Chasing menus is not anything remotely resembling better that getting what you want and only what you want by having selected only what you affirmatively choose. -- "To fear the Lord is to hate evil. . . ." Proverbs 8:13 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
