"Richard L. Hamilton" <rlha...@smart.net> writes: > On Jun 16, 2018, at 05:59, Antonis Tsolomitis <antonis.tsolomi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > A right click for menu and a click on Open is again 2 clicks. The issue here > is to cut down the > clicks > to 50%. All other common desktops I know of, support one click to open. > > Right press and hold, menu comes up (keep holding); move to "Open" and > release. One down, hold > and move, and back up again. > > Of course, holding may be as bad as clicking, in which case that won't help. > > Moreover CDE desktop supports(!) 1 click to restore a minimized application > because it can be > configured > to select the minimized icon on mouse-over. It is dtfile that does not > support this (or I do not > know how to set it up). > > Something like focus follows mouse, but within an application such as dtfile? > I never even imagined > such a thing; probably the dtfile developers, or even the Motif developers, > may not have either. Of > course, the X server doesn't care; i.e. _massive_ rewrites starting from at > least the Motif level on up > might make that possible (or for all I know, there are some imaginative > tricks that might let mere > application level rewrites do the job), but there's not likely to be any way > to configure that.
That's one way to describe it, yes. For what it's worth, this functionality has been configurable on Windows since Windows 95 at, least (possibly earlier?). I have encountered quite a few computers on which it was enabled. The focus shift is not immediate. Selection happens when you hover over the icon for a second or so. This should not be too bad to implement, I should think, but I haven't had a look. It might require a change to Motif. However, he's saying that this is already supported for icons; if so, it shouldn't be bad at all. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
