> A better solution would be to get rid of the handles, and make the > entire toolbar draggable when the Alt key was held down. That would make > rearrangement similarly difficult to do accidentally, but would also > make it easier to do when you really did want to do it, because the > target area would be the entire toolbar instead of a tiny handle. (As an > added bonus, it would reduce the average mouse movement required when > rearranging; calculating why is left as an exercise for the reader.)
To me this sounds reasonable but it's basically undiscoverable. About the Menu: I'd go the way of adding a handle (also for dragging it out of the window) but have it a separate checkbox in the menu&toolbar-properties. When the handles are turned off, Alt drag could still do the job. David _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
