Re: GNOME Panel++

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 20:48 +1200, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:

> Besides the lack of a global menu bar, which John Stowers mentioned, 
> another irritant interaction-wise is inconsistency in behavior between 
> panel applets. Some applets do something on a single click, others 
> don't, and there's no way to tell which just by looking. Some applets 
> do something on a double click, others don't, and there's no way to 
> tell which just by looking. Some applets open a menu or menu-like 
> control, but they differ in whether they make it look like a menu, and 
> if you mouse down on the wrong one you can't slide over to the correct 
> one like you can with a normal menu bar.
> 
> It would be really neat if the panel could make these behaviors 
> consistent.

To be fair to applet developers, this is partly a HIG issue too-- we
have very little there about applet interaction at the moment.  This is
about the sum total, in fact:
http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/2.20/input-mouse.html.en#mouse-interaction-applets

Cheeri,
Calum.

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