-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Remco wrote on 15/04/10 09:01: >... > There is precedent for this in Windows. Tray menus can have a > bold-faced item, which is activated on double click or middle click. > It's one of the few things that fairly consistent among Windows' tray > icons. This is also consistent with desktop icons, which have one > default action: open. Double clicking or middle clicking on the icon > opens the file. >...
Yes, as the Windows UX guidelines say: "Left single-click" should "Display whatever users most likely want to see", while "Right-click" should "Display the context menu, with the default command in bold." <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa511448(v=MSDN.10).aspx#interaction> But even though (a variation of) that guideline has been around since Windows 95, it hasn't worked out well. Many users have given up on left-clicking on notification area items -- probably, I think, because the left-click action wasn't predictable or memorable enough. Instead, they right-click to get the menu every time. "What? You can left-click on that thing and it does something different from right clicking? Dude, why didn't anybody tell me this? I've been doing it the hard way all this time!" <http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2009/05/01/9581563.aspx> That tells me that implementing a middle-click default action wouldn't be a good use of our time. It also suggests to me that to ease the transition for Windows emigrants, we should find a way for right-clicking on a status menu to open the menu exactly the same way as left-clicking does -- just like it does in a standard GTK menu bar already. - -- Matthew Paul Thomas http://mpt.net.nz/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkvHA28ACgkQ6PUxNfU6ecoFDwCfSauGaqh771tA2XTzdVCL2GQQ dgEAnApHCAeUtdbLSsy3iQjD29hJMbWk =ymve -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
