On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 03:14:40 +0100 Der Lockruf des Kaos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> babbled:
> Hi, > > is it possible to rearrange the Entries at the Context Menu? no it's not. > The Entry "Close" to close the focused Window was very good placed as topmost > Entry, so that if you press "Alt+RightMouseButton", you just had to move the > Mouse a few Pixels to select the Close-Entry and so easily could close the > focused Window. Now the topmost Entry is "Window Locks", which is in my > Opinion an inappropriate Place, because i don't use it often. You likely more > often use "Close" to quickly close a Window without moveing to the upperleft > Corner and hit the Close Button there. So in a Sight of "User Interface > Design" it is more intuitive to have the Entries you use often, closer to > your Mousecursor, and the Entries you use fewer, farer away from your Cursor, > if you've activated the Contextmenu. it's been put at the bottom for several reasons. 1. safety - so you dont ACCIDENTALLY click the close menu. i szuggest one day you take a look at your parents using a mouse. mine can barely control their motor skills with it - they click and MOVE the mouse every time. where *I* would simply click and never even have the mouse move a single pixel - they are completely incpapable of clicking without making the mouse move at least a few pixels. the fact is - that makes "dangerous" menu items at the top a BAD idea as they can acidentally select them EASILY. if u want a one-click close, there is a close button - you CAN bind a mouse binding to close if u are a power user. you can also use the default ctrl+alt+x to close too. for power users there are a plethora of ways of making this close action EVEN faster - but as such it is a bad idea for usability design to have the dangerous menu items at the top - thus much more harmless ones are up there. we've had this argument before and the menu was re-arranged as a result of someone pointing this out. there is no way to have a custom layout - so you get the "safe" one as it is a better default. > > -- > Secret Agent Radio: The Soundtrack for your stylish, mysterious, dangerous > Life. For Spies and PIs too! mplayer http://64.236.34.4:80/stream/1021 > xmms -e http://64.236.34.4:80/stream/1021 > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download > it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own > Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php > _______________________________________________ > enlightenment-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users > -- ------------- Codito, ergo sum - "I code, therefore I am" -------------- The Rasterman (Carsten Haitzler) [EMAIL PROTECTED] 裸好多 Tokyo, Japan (東京 日本) ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
