Re: panel menu functionality...

["Ben FrantzDale" <bfrantzdale Thuban AC HMC Edu>]

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Hill <andru@treshna.com>
To: Glenn Arndt <gmarndt@indiana.edu>
Cc: GNOME GUI list <gnome-gui-list@gnome.org>
Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 8:06 PM
Subject: Re: panel menu functionality...


> Glenn Arndt wrote:
>
> > There are not many things I miss about Windows, but here's one thing I
> > always pine for when using menus on the panel (i.e., the GNOME foot,
> > etc.) -- it would be cool if you could drag an icon from anywhere on the
> > panel and drop it into the main menu (or at least the "favorites" menu)
> > anywhere you want. Also, I'd like to be able to do menu editing (i.e.,
> > adjusting the order of menus and launchers, as well editing launcher
> > properties) entirely within the menu itself. One good thing about the
> > Windows GUI is how you can edit the properties of any "shortcut" or menu
> > item with a right-click. It would make menu editing much more convenient
> > if it could be done like Windows does. (What I'm talking about just
> > applies to the panel, though, not within apps themselves.)
> >
> > How easy would this be to implement? Is this too much of a headache to
> > bother with? I would do it myself, but I've just started to learn C/C++.
> > --
> > email: gmarndt@indiana.edu
> >        glenn@schmim.com
> >        glenn.arndtii@marchFIRST.com
> > icq:   #20116268
>
> You can edit the properties of the menu items on the panel by right
> clicking.
> I don't think left hand click and drag in the menu is a good thing. I've
> seen
> new users to win98 accedently drag items of there menu and put them on
> there desktop,
> with no idea of how to put them back. I think it'll be better to have a
> item on the
> right click menu with something like 'add to desktop'.  There is already
> add to launcher
> and add to favourties.

I believe the (mis)feature you speak of (draging from the menu to the
desktop) already exists in Gnome. I'd agree with the first poster that
drag&drop within the menu would be a more ``direct manipulation'' way to do
it.

--Ben