> > This maneuver is called "chording" and requires good motor skills. It > is undesired. (Gnome HIG: "Do not require the use of chording > (pressing multiple mouse buttons simultaneously) for any operations.") > > If users without a middle button do have (discoverable) way to invoke > the menu, then no problem. (Or if we throw these user over board.) >
Well if not with the mouse, we can do it with the keyboard, and use the "start" button instead. Like Compiz Fusion, we attach i.e. the Start-button to show or hide the menu. > > (If I understood it correctly) there is a suggestion to add > possibility to open Application, Settings, Administration menus > anywhere (or anywhere on desktop wallpaper?). And perhaps remove the > existing always-visible menu? > Yes, just like Compiz Fusion. If you are surfing the web with Firefox, you can pop up the menu just by clicking the start-button. Since Microsoft managed to have almost all keyboard in the world to have a Start-button, we can use it for the menu purpose. > > If the existing always-visible menu is removed then I do not know how > and when to tell user how to invoke the menu. > Tell the user to push on the Start-button (we call it from now on Menu-button). > > Different mobile phones have different user interface and the user > interface is still evolving, so the operation will not be familiar to > other people. Computers have more interaction options, which might be > better exploited in this use case. > Sorry, I'm not agree with you about that. If someone just only knows he has to push on the Menu-button, than the rest speaks of them self. I mean a user totally unfamiliar with computers sees a menu in front of his nose, than it's not hard for him to try to click on the Application-icon, or another icon. If he gets nervous, he just click on the back button of the menu-interface. Most mobilephones simply work that way, almost every mobilephone has a button for menu, the rest of it is obvious. > > Also, since the middle button would be used by environment, it would > not be available to applications. (Although Gnome HIG recommends "Do > not assign any actions exclusively to the middle button" it is useful > in some cases.) > Well, than we use our Menu-button instead :) Kind regards, Andaluz
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