On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:15:32 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:34:47 +1000 David Seikel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > babbled: > > > the Close item on the E17 window menu should be at the bottom of > > the menu, and not at the top. The same argument applies to the > > Kill button, but since it WILL kill the application, and possibly > > in an unfriendly manner, it is more dangerous, and should be > > slightly harder to do. Put Kill at the very bottom, maybe add a > > "Are you sure?" dialog. > > i agree this is probably a good idea - its a trivial re-ordering in > the menu generation code for the border menu :) the "are you sure" is > possible - though a bit more code :) I'll put the reordering on my TODO, and keep thinking about the confirm. David Sharps idea has some merit as well. > > exposed root window to click on. I know that there is a key > > binding for that purpose, but it is not obvious, and not everybody > > has that key on their keyboards. > > you don't have ctrl, alt and an m key? you do know there is MORE than > 1 binding to do this? :) Erm, I do now. Kinda makes my point that it is not obvious though. Oh well, by the time we release E17, there will be better documentation. > > My solution is to include the desktop menus in the window menu, > > which is always just a click away. Unless you have no visible > > borders of course. > > ok- putting the main menu in the border menu is non-trivial as then > we need to keep track of and free all menus AND submenus of this main > menu. in future we just need to improve maximize to not go over > modules like the pager, ibar etc. and make smart maximisation the > default. then ALLthese things are ALWAYS accessible - INCLUDINg the > "root menu?" My monitor has tiny resolution, I want my application windows to take up all available screen real estate. Well, what I really want is a 15 inch 1600x1200 or better LCD/OLED monitor that will fold up neatly and squeeze into my backpack. But that's a hardware problem, this is a software work around. The start module shares the main menu, so it looks like infrastructure is in place to share it elsewhere. I say with still no idea how anything inside E17 works. B-)
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