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On Wednesday, May 22, 2002, at 12:53 PM, Brad Watson wrote:
> I went through the fire list archive to read the discussions on this,
> since I have been away for a while, & I believe I've found the original
> request, which was never followed up by any thoughts.
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>> Hi there,
>>
>> would it be possible to enhance Fires dock men�, so that when I just
>> click on a budy in there without using the submenu for it, to open a
>> new message chat window then?
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> I myself, being an avid user of the dock functions in the past, don't
> really see the point in simplifying this particular feature at the
> expense of four others when only one extra mouse navigation was needed
> to select "Open IM window". I loved the fact that you could get the
> same use out of the dock's simple three sub menu's as that of the
> actual buddy list itself. Would it be at all possible to implement this
> particular feature without removing the established UI that so many
> people already rely on? Such as a dock pref like "Simple dock menu's"
> similar to OS9's "Simple Finder" preference.
>
> Also, as I was researching through the list, I found a response from
> Colter to an unrelated, yet slightly similar, issue from the past that
> makes a good point here.
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>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>> > I think the same menu should be used for consistency. Instead of
>> being able
>> > to do this here, but having to go there to do that, the same
>> functionality
>> > should be available everywhere. (Except where it just doesn't make
>> sense,
>> > of course, like taking "Open IM Window" out of the buddy menu for
>> the Buddy
>> > Controls toolbar item.)
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> I submit these thoughts only for your consideration & will ultimately
> stand by whatever decision is made of this matter for the good of the
> application.
I've added an "Expanded Dock menus" preference in the Appearance pref
under Dock.
-Jason
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