Re: eject buttons on the places menu

["Kalle Vahlman" <kalle vahlman gmail com>]

2007/1/4, David Prieto <frandavid100 gmail com>:
>  Since version 0.5.1, Tomboy is offering a way to pin important notes by
> pressing a pin icon at the side of the note,like this:
>
>  http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6149/sinnombrejg7.jpg
>
>  I think that implementing a similar solution on gnome-panel's places menu
> would be rather useful. Here you can see a small mockup I made:
>
>  http://img503.imageshack.us/img503/4111/pantallazobu2.png
>
>  What do you think? Would it be very hard to implement? Is there anyone
> against the idea?

I'll gladly volunteer to be against it ;)

While otherwise a decent idea, this makes the menuitem have two
different actions without clearly stating so. There is visually
nothing that will tell the user that the eject button is any different
from the icon before the text. Making it look like a button would sort
of solve this I guess...

BUT this would also disrupt keyboard navigation (and most likely
assistive technologies too), since although you could implement it so
that pressing right would select the small icon when on the item,
getting back would not be as simple. Pressing left now brings you to
higher level menu so it would either require a double press
*sometimes*   (creating a web of confusion unless you spot that there
is this funny icon that caused it) or some totally different method
making it very undiscoverable.

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Kalle Vahlman, zuh iki fi
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