Re: [Unity-design] Lens switching via Mouse - Forward/Backward Keys

2012-07-02 Thread Ryan Prior
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 4:12 PM, Chris Druif wrote: > >> As far as quickly switching between lenses in the Dash, I think that >> using the same mouse interactions as tabs do would be appropriate. >> (scroll wheel down moves to next lens, scroll wheel up moves to >> previous). > > I think you might

Re: [Unity-design] Lens switching via Mouse - Forward/Backward Keys

2012-07-02 Thread Chris Druif
> As far as quickly switching between lenses in the Dash, I think that > using the same mouse interactions as tabs do would be appropriate. > (scroll wheel down moves to next lens, scroll wheel up moves to > previous). I think you might want to add a modifier to that, seeing that some lenses expa

Re: [Unity-design] Lens switching via Mouse - Forward/Backward Keys

2012-07-02 Thread Ryan Prior
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Evan Huus wrote: > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Ryan Prior wrote: > I don't see why it would make a bad default - those key-combos aren't used > for anything else in the dash right now. I would be inclined to save those mouse buttons and key combos for possibl

Re: [Unity-design] Lens switching via Mouse - Forward/Backward Keys

2012-07-02 Thread Jeremy Nickurak
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Ryan Prior wrote: > I think that the mouse sends an alt+left or alt+right (to my knowledge > there's no special API for reading hardware forward/back commands.) > > I don't know that alt+left/right would be an appropriate default > shortcut for moving between lense

Re: [Unity-design] Lens switching via Mouse - Forward/Backward Keys

2012-07-02 Thread Evan Huus
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 11:05 AM, Ryan Prior wrote: > On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Marco Kirchberger > wrote: > > Hello all, > > today the most mouse devices have extra keys for forward and backward > > navigation in different applications. > > I think that the mouse sends an alt+left or alt+r

Re: [Unity-design] Lens switching via Mouse - Forward/Backward Keys

2012-07-02 Thread Ryan Prior
On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 6:39 AM, Marco Kirchberger wrote: > Hello all, > today the most mouse devices have extra keys for forward and backward > navigation in different applications. I think that the mouse sends an alt+left or alt+right (to my knowledge there's no special API for reading hardware

[Unity-design] Lens switching via Mouse - Forward/Backward Keys

2012-07-02 Thread Marco Kirchberger
Hello all, today the most mouse devices have extra keys for forward and backward navigation in different applications. Why we don't use this keys for lens switching in the dash. For users which have mostly one hand on the mouse would this a great advantage. -- Cheers! Marco -- Mailing list: h