>>>> -----Message d'origine-----
>>>> De : Pharo-dev [mailto:[email protected]] De la part de
>>>> Ben Coman
>>>> Envoyé : lundi 17 août 2015 15:52
>>>> À : Pharo Development List
>>>> Objet : [Pharo-dev] World Menu associated mouse click
>>>>
>>>> A while back on reddit someone complained about the World Menu being
>>>> associated with left-mouse-click.  I have come to agree.  The World Menu
>>>> provides the actions available in the context of the World, i.e.
>>>> the World's context-menu - but its not invoked by the usual convention
>>>> for context menus, which is the right-mouse-click.
>>>>
>>>> By way of example, in a fresh image and open one Playground.
>>>>
>>>> * First right-click the Playground. Up comes the Playground's
>>>> context-menu as expected per industry wide conventions.
>>>>
>>>> * Then right-click the background. Doh! Its not consistent, thats not
>>>> the World's context-menu. "WTH is that?" says a newbie in surprise.
>>>> (Btw, who uses that list of open windows ? I *never* do and might
>>>> suggest that function be moved to a meta-mouse-click.)
>>>>
>>>> So can we discuss changing the World Menu to be invoked by the
>>>> context-click (i.e. right-click) ?
>>>>
>>>> cheers -ben

>>> 2015-08-17 16:07 GMT+02:00 Blondeau Vincent
>>> <[email protected]>:
>>>> There is a setting to have this consistence (deactivated by default):
>>>> Appearance>Desktop>Invert right click on world menu in Linux and Windows
>>>>
>>>> By the way, the buttons are not inverted under Mac (conventional).
>>>>
>>>> I agree that the context click should open the world menu by default..

>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 4:14 PM, Nicolai Hess <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> +1

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 7:19 PM Peter Uhnák <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Btw in Bloc this has already been changed.

> On Mon, Aug 17, 2015 at 9:15 PM, Dimitris Chloupis <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>> If you are not ready to get out of your comfort zone , you wont be using
>> Smalltalk. Sure change it to left click, but in the end it wont make much of
>> a difference. Smalltalk is for a specific kind of people that are looking
>> for a fresh approach to coding. For everyone else there is like a ton of
>> languages that recycle old recipes and keep things familiar.

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 5:39 AM, Peter Uhnák <[email protected]> wrote:
> importantly there's difference between "keeping things familiar with the
> universe (other OS/langs/...)"  and "being internally consistent" (every
> menu except for the world menu is opened with right/yellow button).

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 3:15 AM, Dimitris Chloupis
<[email protected]> wrote:
> If you are not ready to get out of your comfort zone , you wont be using
> Smalltalk. Sure change it to left click, but in the end it wont make much of
> a difference. Smalltalk is for a specific kind of people that are looking
> for a fresh approach to coding. For everyone else there is like a ton of
> languages that recycle old recipes and keep things familiar.

Of course I subscribe to the view of our uniqueness :) - but its not
sufficient as the only argument.  We should not be complacent to use
that as a crutch to keep things the way they have always been because
that is "our" comfort zone.

cheers -ben

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