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

[Jacob Beauregard <deadowlsurvivor gmail com>]

Calum Benson wrote:
> 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 :)
I still hate single button mouses.
> > - 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-clicks would be interesting in a multitouch environment. You know 
what I just realized though--- I was watching the Google Wave demo for 
the first time the other day, and it kind of looks like a backward 
version of list emails--- where replies are indented rather than the 
original post, with a lot of additional features.
> 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.