> It is available for application indicators, and it's governed rather > simply. The action has to be a visible menu item that is in the menu. > If you hide it, it doesn't work. If you remove it, it doesn't work. > This way the middle click always remains a power user feature, but not a > hidden feature. And machines without middle click will never loose > functionality. > > As far as which item is chosen, I'm happy to let application authors > play with that. They know their applications better than I believe we > ever will. > > In the end, I expect that OMG Ubuntu readers will know what every middle > click will do and we'll never be able to do a usability study on it > because no normal user will ever find it :-) > > --Ted
The implementation sounds good, but I'm a tad concerned about how this will relate to menus in general. I know, there aren't many people who will middle click to open menus, but it's worth noting that GTK+'s menu bar has historically worked where pressing any mouse button will open the menu. Now, doing that has a chance of sometimes performing an unknown operation, and otherwise opening a menu. Since Unity's menu bar is effectively the only menu bar (so whatever it does defines what other menu bars do), perhaps this is a good time to revisit that behaviour in GTK. Or perhaps this has been pondered already :) Dylan _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~ayatana Post to : ayatana@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~ayatana More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
