Re: opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-14 Thread Calum Benson
On 9 Jun 2006, at 16:52, Xavier Bestel wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 15:51, David Prieto wrote: [...] It would be so much better if middle-clicking a launcher would launch the program, but leave the menu open. Then I would only have to click applications, internet, evolution (middle-click),

Re: opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-12 Thread Stanislav Brabec
Xavier Bestel wrote: Under AmigaOS you could do it that way IIRC: right-click to open the menu, then without releasing the right-mouse-button use the left-mouse-button to do your multiselections. Not that I advise using several mouse buttons at once. It was a nice feature allowing to do

Re: opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-11 Thread Alan Horkan
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, David Prieto wrote: Date: Wed, 07 Jun 2006 15:51:47 +0200 From: David Prieto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: desktop-devel-list@gnome.org Subject: opening a program with the middle button Hi, I have a suggestion I already posted in Ubuntu Launchpad. Here it goes: First thing I

Re: opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-11 Thread Sri Ramkrishna
On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 10:03 +0100, Alan Horkan wrote: What do you think about it? Mozilla allows you to bookmark groups and open several pages at once. Perhaps we need a way to create a launcher which launches more than one program? (I guess you could do that using a script.) Anything

opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-09 Thread David Prieto
Hi, I have a suggestion I already posted in Ubuntu Launchpad. Here it goes: First thing I do when I switch on my laptop is open evolution to read my e-mails, liferea to get my news feeds and epiphany to browse some forums. Not necessarily when switching it on, but overall I usually run these

Re: opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-09 Thread Johan Svedberg
* Jun 09 12:37 David Prieto [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi, I have a suggestion I already posted in Ubuntu Launchpad. Here it goes: First thing I do when I switch on my laptop is open evolution to read my e-mails, liferea to get my news feeds and epiphany to browse some forums. Not necessarily when

Re: opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-09 Thread Calum Benson
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 15:51 +0200, David Prieto wrote: It would be so much better if middle-clicking a launcher would launch the program, but leave the menu open. Then I would only have to click applications, internet, evolution (middle-click), liferea (middle-click), epiphany. What do you

Re: opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-09 Thread Jan de Groot
On Fri, 2006-06-09 at 12:54 +0200, Johan Svedberg wrote: You could ofcourse create desktop shortcuts or panel launchers for the applications you use most frequently. But I like the idea, another alternative might be to add a Run application in the right-click menu. That, together with the

Re: opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-09 Thread Alexey Rusakov
Calum Benson wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 15:51 +0200, David Prieto wrote: It would be so much better if middle-clicking a launcher would launch the program, but leave the menu open. Then I would only have to click applications, internet, evolution (middle-click), liferea (middle-click),

Re: opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-09 Thread Xavier Bestel
On Wed, 2006-06-07 at 15:51, David Prieto wrote: [...] It would be so much better if middle-clicking a launcher would launch the program, but leave the menu open. Then I would only have to click applications, internet, evolution (middle-click), liferea (middle-click), epiphany. Under AmigaOS

Re: opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-09 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
On Jun 7, 2006, at 9:51 AM, David Prieto wrote: ... First thing I do when I switch on my laptop is open evolution to read my e-mails, liferea to get my news feeds and epiphany to browse some forums. Not necessarily when switching it on, but overall I usually run these programs together. You

Re: opening a program with the middle button

2006-06-09 Thread David Prieto
I'm sorry, I replied to Calum instead of sending my mail to the list: _ I suppose it would be harmless enough, although the HIG does say you shouldn't have features that you can only perform with the