I personally love the way menus are hidden when not in use (or indeed
usable), but I do understand the argument that in some cases, you must
move the pointer for long distances.
One possible solution to this, is the ability to teleport the mouse
pointer to the menus and then have it snap back to the window you were
working with when you're done with the menus. For instance, you can
currently press F10 to focus the menus, which makes them easy to use
with the keyboard. This is nice, but it leaves the mouse somewhat out in
the cold. My proposal is that if you press and hold shift while pressing
F10, then the mouse pointer would be moved to the menus so you could
easily navigate with the mouse. When you release shift or activate a
menuitem, then the pointer is moved back to where it was before it was
teleported. To signal that the pointer is in an "altered state of
reality", it would get a different color and/or shape.
Also, I think F10 is rather hostile for right-handed users. I think it
would be nice if you could define that you're right handed or left
handed, and have these things react to that. For instance, F10 would be
used for left-handed people and F2 would be used if you're right handed.
This is a large topic by itself, so I'll stop there.
What do you think? I haven't actually tested this in reality, but I
think it might be nice.
Jo-Erlend Schinstad
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