[ILUG-Social] Random ideas.

[Stephen Shirley]

On Fri, 5 Oct 2001, David Golden wrote:

> _Current Situation:_
>
> When you press RMB, a popup-menu appears.  you move the mouse.
>
> """Moving the mouse causes the mouse pointer to move.
>
> You use this to select an entry from the menu.  Menu then disappears and your
> action is carried out.
>
> """Mouse pointer is in a quite different position to where you left it before
> pressing RMB.
>
>
>
> _Suggested Situation:_
>
> When you press RMB, a popup-menu appears.  you move the mouse.
>
> ***Moving the mouse causes popup-menu to scroll underneath the (stationary
> relative to physical screen) mouse pointer.
>
> You use this to select an entry from the menu.  Menu then disappears and your
> action is carried out.
>
> ***Mouse pointer is exactly where you left it before pressing RMB.
>

My goodness - that _is_ a new idea! Bloody strange and twisted tho it
might be - it would be interesting to try out. I doubt however if it's
possible to change this in such a way that it would work across all window
managers or even applications, making it very hard to implement properly.

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