Le dimanche 10 février 2008, à 22:09 +1300, Matthew Paul Thomas a écrit : > On Feb 7, 2008, at 9:06 AM, William Lachance wrote: >> ... >> A while back I fixed up a patch originally written by Novell to GNOME >> panel, which makes it impossible to move without unlocking it first >> (the default setting is locked). This prevents the user from >> inadvertently moving the panel when (e.g.) they're just trying to open >> an application. >> ... >> This really is a serious usability problem: it's tripped up my >> girlfriend at least once, and you can see lots of complaints in the >> bugs about this happening to other people as well. I'd really love to >> see it fixed. > > Unfortunately this is not a good solution to the problem, because it > introduces an unnecessary mode -- unlocked versus locked. Modes should > be avoided whenever possible, because remembering which mode you're in > takes extra mental effort. > > A better solution would be to introduce a quasimode, a temporary mode > based on a physical action. We already have an example of this for > dragging in Ubuntu: holding down the Alt key currently lets you move > windows by dragging anywhere, even on areas where dragging would > normally do something else. > > The panel could copy this behavior: Alt+dragging could move the panel, > while normal dragging does nothing. That way people would be much less > likely to move the panel by mistake.
FWIW, the current plan, discussed at GUADEC, is to have both solutions: "edit mode" (where you can easily move/add/remove applets and panels) and the alt+drag for moving applets and panels. It just needs to be implemented :-) Vincent -- Les gens heureux ne sont pas pressés. -- ubuntu-desktop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-desktop
