Re: UI Review Suggestions



On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 12:01, Sean Middleditch wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 14:40, Bill Haneman wrote:
> > ...Gaute said:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I have another one for the panel:
> > > - Getting to the panel context menu may be impossible with the mouse on a
> > > full panel. Currently you have to rely on bugs to do this (for instance
> > > some applets not abiding by Fitt's law and thus creating a small space
> > > where you can find the context menu). Having a "panel" submenu on the
> > > context-menus of applets might be the only choice.
> > 
> > Try Control-F10 (once the panel is focussed, for instance via
> > Control-Alt-TAB)
> > 
> > :-)
> > 
> > much easier...
> 
> This is neither easy nor intuitive for the average user.  Heck, *I* find
> it unintuitive. ~,^  It also thus depends on the keyboard, which can be
> slightly annoying.  I imagine there may be some sort of accessibility
> issue involved as well.
> 
> The submenu idea is best; if that isn't easily possible, someway of
> ensuring there is always some easy panel space to get to might be good
> as (say a few pixels at each end of the panel if the hide buttons are
> disabled).  Right-clicking on the menu/window-list-corner-thingy in the
> Menu Panel should perhaps work, too.

Not only is it easy, it's what was done for some time in 1.4. I'd swear
there was a bug on this, but I can't find it in bugzilla.

FWIW: my vote is for the panel sub-menu, thoguh I'd prefer to see
something cleaner if anyone has ideas.

--Ben

> > 
> > - Bill
> > 
> > > Gaute
> > >
> > 
> > 
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