Re: [Usability] Requesting a right-click root menu for GNOME 3

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On 2 Oct 2009, at 14:48, Karoliina Salminen wrote:

> Hi,
>
> The reason why I pointed out the right click as problematic is the  
> following:
> - what if you have single button mouse (Macs have single button mouse
> by default)

And yet, Macs have also had right-click menus for many years :)

> - what if you have a touch screen (like Asus eeTop or whatever it  
> was called),
> the release cycle of Gnome has been very slow and the touch screens
> will be norm before
> 3.0 is most likely even done. There is no right click on touch screen.
> - what if the screen is multi-touch screen? I guess the Asus uses
> resistive touch screen, but sooner or later
> these will have capacitive screens. That means how we use computer
> changes quite radically and
> we get rid of the mouse-keyboard combination pretty much.

Right-click menus are supposed to be shortcuts to functionality that  
you can already access in some other way.  Assuming that doesn't  
change, none of these issues are particularly problematic.  If there's  
no way to physically access a right-click menu on a particular device,  
then it will just never be seen, and users will just have to use the  
primary point of access instead (which will, one would hope, have been  
somewhat optimized for that device anyway).

Cheeri,
Calum.

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