your suggestions seem good to me. and a small delay is not so bad. And the Gnome-shell indicators do have a slight delay, so that seems to help.
> Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2012 11:17:15 +0200 > From: t...@freenet.de > To: unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Subject: Re: [Unity-design] Angle of escape in new indicator menus with > toggle switches > > On 06/08/2012 12:17 AM, Omar B. wrote: > > The solution is to make Indicators not behave as if they were Menu items > > (like the items in the global menu). > > > > When you click an Indicator, why just hovering (usually by mistake) to > > the next one switches to that one ? > > I mean to recall that it is a stated design goal, to have the indicator > menus behave like any other menu. > > In the case of menus with text-heads, switching between menu-bodies on > hovering, without additional click is useful to look through what's > available and for easily correcting selection after a badly aimed click. > I admit that those reasons seem less applicable to indicator menus. > > Still, with so much similarity in placement and behavior, it would be > odd if there was a difference in this detail. Exceptions are to be > avoided, for the benefit of lean implementations, shorter documentation > and simpler mental models. > > The likelihood of accidental triggering of adjacent menus can be reduced by: > - taking the trajectory into account > - making sure every menu-item can be reached with a straight downward > movement > - increasing the padding around the indicators > - introducing a delay before another menu would open (listed for > completeness, I would expect this to be frustrating in practice) > OR: by not automatically opening other menus without additional click, > as you proposed, where I would say it should be the same for all menus. > > > -- > Thorsten Wilms > > thorwil's design for free software: > http://thorwil.wordpress.com/ > > -- > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > Post to : unity-design@lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~unity-design > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
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