On Nov 12, 2009, at 12:00 PM, Richard Frith-Macdonald wrote:
On 12 Nov 2009, at 16:55, David Chisnall wrote:
On 12 Nov 2009, at 16:49, hansfba...@googlemail.com wrote:
This allows to display any menu (set via setMenu:) as the popup
menu of
the view. It is up to the application programmer to use or ignore
this
feature.
Thanks for the explanation. I supposed so.
So the issue is rather the default behavior;
I would suggest rather do nothing on right mouse click,
since that is how things work in all OSes I know of.
(And the app menu is visible all the time anyway...)
This might make sense if you are in using the Windows or Mac
interface styles, but I don't really like it.
I think only in windows style ... since the GNUstep behavior is
already the same as on a Mac.
Having the main menu a single click away without having to move the
mouse is a good design from the point of view of usability. A menu
that appears where the mouse is beats both a menu attached to the
window and a menu attached to the screen in Fitts' Law terms.
Yes, the current behavior is a good thing. I actually wouldn't want
it to change even when using the windows interface style, since I
can see no benefit to *not* providing any action in response to a
right mouse click.
I would also point out that it is frustrating when the context menu on
an OS X application doesn't also contain all of the actions that make
sense in that context, such as not providing a 'Services' menu item.
There's nothing more frustrating than right-clicking and not finding
the action you intended to use, then having to navigate to the menu
bar to find it, especially on a large screen (or in my case, multi-
screen) setup. A corollary is that it is frustrating to find an
action *only* in the context menu, which I have seen as well. If all
actions are available somewhere on the main menu or from an Inspector
panel reachable from there, providing the main menu as a default makes
perfect sense, and a custom context menu just becomes an optimization
of that.
The difference on OS X is that most views tend to have some kind of
context menu, while most in GNUstep apps don't.
Yes ... it's up to the app programmer.
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