Hi, Am Samstag, den 18.02.2006, 00:20 +0100 schrieb Benedikt Meurer: > Danny Milosavljevic wrote: > >>He also mentions the mouse gestures for navigation (humm, I > >> > >>>>didn't know that myself!), but that sounds rather positive. > >>> > >>>Mouse gestures? Someone care to point me in the right direction? > > > >>In the file window, if you click on the middle button (not on a file, on > >>the background), you can navigate with the mouse in your tree. > >>I discovered it yesterday too. > > > > Sigh.. I don't get it why apps use the middle mouse button for mouse > > gestures... by far the most widely used mouse is 2 buttons + wheel (the > > latter doubles as "middle" mouse button when you hold really still). > > > > Holding the wheel while moving the mouse (and not moving the wheel) is > > really hard ... > > > > Having a 5 button mouse, I don't need gestures that much, but... what's > > the deal with that? > > > > I know that using the right mouse button somewhat clashes with the popup > > menu when you use the popup menu in a > > hold-mouse-button-down-move-to-menu-item-then-release-mouse-button way > > (which I like), but even breaking that would be better than wheel > > magic... > > It's a hidden feature (actually only available to people who care to > read the FAQ file), if you want to use it, do it, if not, ignore it (you > should have no trouble ignoring it). > > The choice for the middle mouse button is simple: (a) both left and > right button movement is already taken for dnd and rubberband selection > (afterall that's what people will expect, so no need to confuse them).
you have a point > So that leaves only the middle button (the wheel button). It's usually > not used within the file manager (atleast in sane file managers) except > for opening folders in new windows (-> double middle click), so chances > are good that people will not press the button on the icon view > background and be confused because they expected a different behaviour. > Instead, people will be happy that they have discovered a hidden feature > (an easter egg), and can afterwards decide to ignore it and just > continue as usual, or use it. > > Afterall the feature is probably only useful if you are (a) too lazy to > press Alt+Up or move the mouse to the pathbar, or (b) disable the > location bar completly and are again to lazy to press Alt+Up. ;-) > True :) (I meant it more as a general comment, I know there isn't really a way to fix it) And Easter Eggs are nice :) cheers, Danny _______________________________________________ Thunar-dev mailing list Thunar-dev@xfce.org http://foo-projects.org/mailman/listinfo/thunar-dev
