[ILUG-Social] Random ideas.

[Stephen Shirley]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, David Golden wrote:

> Just a couple of random thoughts:
>
> 1.  Whenever I use a right-button menu, I lose the place where the mouse
> pointer was, because I have to move the pointer to select entries.   This is
> particularly annoying in art and cad packages.
>
> In this day and age, with super-fast gfx hardware, why not make the
> mousepointer stay still, and make the pop-up menu scroll underneath it?
>
> IMHO, it'd be a major gain in useability for applications that require
> precision mousery.

Hmm - what window manager are you using (or is it even linux you're
talking about)? I take it you mean that when you try to right-click to
open a menu near the bottom of the screen, your mouse pointer is moved to
the top entry of the menu on you. I can see how that would be annoying
alright. It is definetely configurable in some window managers (*cough*
window maker *cough* -).


>
> 2.  Is there any threaded mail/news readers that allow a "nested" display
> mode like slashdot/kuro5hin - current one's I've seen are, at best, like
> "threaded" mode.   I find, in following a large discussion, the "nested" mode
> easiest to follow, since the whole thing's visible on one big "sheet".  Again,
> with today's beefy hardware, why not?  (O.K. for many news groups, it'd
> probably overload the news server, since there's so many messages and so much
> irrelevance, but for mailing lists and smaller newsgroups it would be nice...)

Interesting idea. It would certainly be nice for me as I tend to read the
lkml off a local news server, and reading the mails in cronological order
tends to give a rather fragmented view of the conversation(s).

Steve
-- 
"My mom had Windows at work and it hurt her eyes real bad"