Re: Panel UI - startmenu productivity thoughts

[Sebastian Kapp <lasheimok web de>]

Adam Elman wrote:

> One potential problem with this is that if the user gets into the 
> habit of, say, double-clicking the Internet folder to launch Mozilla, 
> but then launches another app in the folder one day, it might cause 
> them to start up the wrong app the next time they go and do their 
> usual habit.

So what usually happens is that you open the folder, stop moving the 
mouse pointer to first look which item is selected, click again if it is 
selected, go on moving otherwise.
If the highlightning is not *really* obvious at the /very first moment/, 
you won't win nothing.
Then, in the best case, your lookup time is the same time you needed 
otherwise to move the mouse pointer to the desired item (Assuming you 
know where to find your most used items). So you win nothing if the item 
is already selected and only loose if it's not.

I like the feature, though, if the highlightning is done right.

> But at least things aren't moving around, and the visual feedback of 
> the submenu opening with the appropriate item highlighted should make 
> it fairly clear what's going on. 

In OS/2, you could apply a default action for the Open submenu. If you 
just clicked open, the default prog was started, if you clicked at the 
-> Button, a sub menu opened and you had a list of apps.
That wouldn't work here, though, since you have to open the submenu 
before you know what's the default action.

> Later,
> Adam