Re: [Usability] Re: New "Add to panel" dialog

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:59 +0100, Estradin Solaris wrote:



> Actually applets need quite a lot of work, HIG-wise, because they
> behaviour is terribly inconsistent. All of them should behave like a
> drop-down menu, with no right click or with a consistent right click
> behaviour. Certainly that's a quite urgent problem to be addressed.
> Maybe we should file a bug in the guidelines?

By all means file a bug, but I think we're unlikely to go as far as you
suggest.  There is certainly a class of applets that could behave like
menus, but there are also plenty that shouldn't-- e.g. when you click on
the workspace switcher, it would be useful if it switched your
workspace, rather than popping up a menu :)

Cheeri,
Calum.

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