From: Ronny B (fvacuum at domain yahoo.com)
Date: Fri 05 Oct 2001 - 17:38:57 IST
On Fri, Oct 05, 2001 at 04:55:32PM +0100, Jeremy Smyth wrote:
> Not sure I agree - Think Afterstep's way of snapping to the logout box, or many
> Pagers' way of warping the mouse to the "other" edge of the screen. I've been
"Large warps" are horrible, yes, but a small adjustment to menus would
be appreciated - and if someone bothers to implement it in a window
manager, I'm sure they also leave it off by default.
> A possibly suitable solution would involve another mouse button, or mouse
> wheel. Button2 is in little enough use for it to mean something special, and
> using a mousewheel for menus is getting more established (anyone played
> Hitman?). Only problem I can think of is lateral movement, i.e. for navigating
> through multi-level menus.
Doesn't Enlightenment let you roll the menus, by the way? If only E
wouldn't take over the desktop, I'd use it. I want my desktop manager to
manage my desktop, thank you ;)
(Someone should set up a HCI-rant list ;)
-- O-RB
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