On 1/10/07, Vincent Untz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> IIRC (and I could be wrong since it's been more than a year since I last
> looked at this bug), this is because GTK+ doesn't help us doing the
> popup menus on menu items hack.
GTK+ doesn't have to support every bad UI idea people have...
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On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 14:34 +0100, Vincent Untz wrote:
> > Why would you expect to find them? No other menu on the desktop has
> > them, and even half of the menu items on this particular menu (the ones
> > that are sub-menus rather than launchers) don't have them-- even though
> > those are exac
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 01:53 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 05 janvier 2007 à 17:06 +, Calum Benson a écrit :
> > Regular context menus, for selected icons and suchlike, are still
> > best considered an expert feature; you'd be surprised how many
> > Windows users have no idea
On 1/9/07, Kalle Vahlman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This could be achieved by the slab menu, perhaps I will after all vote for it
> ;)
I was actually going to say, if the slab menu had a places pane, then
there could be normal eject buttons beside the ejectable devices. They
wouldn't be a weir
Le mercredi 10 janvier 2007, à 13:25, Calum Benson a écrit :
> On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 01:53 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> > Le vendredi 05 janvier 2007 ?? 17:06 +, Calum Benson a ??crit :
> > > Regular context menus, for selected icons and suchlike, are still
> > > best considered an expert
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 01:53 +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 05 janvier 2007 à 17:06 +, Calum Benson a écrit :
> > Regular context menus, for selected icons and suchlike, are still
> > best considered an expert feature; you'd be surprised how many
> > Windows users have no ide
Calum Benson wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 15:29 +0100, Steve Frécinaux wrote:
>
>> Calum Benson wrote:
>>
>>> On 4 Jan 2007, at 15:27, David Prieto wrote:
>>>
>>>
We could also add a context menu with "open" and
"eject", since apps menu items already have context menus an
2007/1/9, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 15:29 +0100, Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> > Calum Benson wrote:
> > > On 4 Jan 2007, at 15:27, David Prieto wrote:
> > >
> > >> We could also add a context menu with "open" and
> > >> "eject", since apps menu items already have context
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 15:29 +0100, Steve Frécinaux wrote:
> Calum Benson wrote:
> > On 4 Jan 2007, at 15:27, David Prieto wrote:
> >
> >> We could also add a context menu with "open" and
> >> "eject", since apps menu items already have context menus and it would
> >> be just logical that items in
On Jan 6, 2007, at 5:53 AM, Calum Benson wrote:
>
> On 4 Jan 2007, at 23:21, Dave Neary wrote:
> ...
>> I've been getting the impression reading this thread that I'm the only
>> person who has used this feature on OSX... anyone know how the
>> accessibility issue is handled over there?
> ...
> Or,
On Jan 6, 2007, at 2:41 AM, Diego Escalante wrote:
>
> On 1/5/07, Who <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>> Perhaps it's time for me to mail this mockup around again:
>>
>> http://mailforwho.googlepages.com/RemoveableDevices.png
>
> Very nice.
... If a little overdone. I predict that a substantial prop
Le vendredi 05 janvier 2007 à 17:06 +, Calum Benson a écrit :
> Regular context menus, for selected icons and suchlike, are still
> best considered an expert feature; you'd be surprised how many
> Windows users have no idea they exist.
>
> Context menus for actual menu items, as we have on
Here is what you can currently do with tabular menus.
Note that I do not really want to advocate this as a desirable
feature, just showing what can already be done.
Matthias
tablemenu.png
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#include
static gboolean
popup_menu (GtkWidget *widget,
gpointer
On 4 Jan 2007, at 21:54, David Prieto wrote:
>
> Besides, are context menus all that undiscoverable? Windows has them
> too, so most newbees should be used to them by now, I guess.
Regular context menus, for selected icons and suchlike, are still
best considered an expert feature; you'd be sur
On 4 Jan 2007, at 19:26, David Prieto wrote:
>> Personally, I think the last thing we need is more context menus on
>> menu items... it's probably about the most (unintentionally)
>> undiscoverable feature on our entire desktop.
>
> I might agree, but... how's having an undiscoverable feature wor
On 4 Jan 2007, at 23:21, Dave Neary wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 20:26 +0100, David Prieto wrote:
>>> I'm open to alternative solutions, anyway. Would it be OK if
>>> keyboard
>>> navigation just ignored the eject buttons?
>>
>> it would be an accessibility i
Calum Benson wrote:
> On 4 Jan 2007, at 15:27, David Prieto wrote:
>
>> We could also add a context menu with "open" and
>> "eject", since apps menu items already have context menus and it would
>> be just logical that items in the places menu had them too.
>
> Personally, I think the last thing
2007/1/5, David Prieto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > I've always thought that notification area icons for removable drives
> > was the way to go. These could be managed by gnome-volume-manager.
> > People typically object to this if they have "permanent" usb storage
> > devices connected. To this end th
Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote:
> Currently the only way to eject/unmount things *is* through a context
> menu. Adding more, as you say, wont make things better of course. I
> really really feel that something has to be done about this. It is
> horrible, and I'm ashamed each time I try to explain
On 1/5/07, Who <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Perhaps it's time for me to mail this mockup around again:
>
> http://mailforwho.googlepages.com/RemoveableDevices.png
Very nice.
>
> Obviously, the strings and layout are not the best as they are, but I
> think the concept is sound :)
>
> It is both dis
> > Personally, I think the last thing we need is more context menus on
> > menu items... it's probably about the most (unintentionally)
> > undiscoverable feature on our entire desktop.
> I might agree, but... how's having an undiscoverable feature worse than
> not having the feature at all?
> I
> Perhaps it's time for me to mail this mockup around again:
>
> http://mailforwho.googlepages.com/RemoveableDevices.png
>
> Obviously, the strings and layout are not the best as they are, but I
> think the concept is sound :)
I proposed that very same thing to the nautilus devel list short ago,
Perhaps it's time for me to mail this mockup around again:
http://mailforwho.googlepages.com/RemoveableDevices.png
Obviously, the strings and layout are not the best as they are, but I
think the concept is sound :)
It is both discoverable and useful (and with a 'hide' button on the
top form, eve
Le vendredi 05 janvier 2007, à 09:41, David Prieto a écrit :
> Anyway, the initial problem with the eject buttons on the panel was that
> they'd be difficult to reach without the mouse... is reaching a
> notification area icon any easier?
No :-)
"Notification Area needs keynav"
http://bugzilla.gn
> I've always thought that notification area icons for removable drives
> was the way to go. These could be managed by gnome-volume-manager.
> People typically object to this if they have "permanent" usb storage
> devices connected. To this end there should probably be a way to
> disable icons for
2007/1/4, Calum Benson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On 4 Jan 2007, at 15:27, David Prieto wrote:
>
> > We could also add a context menu with "open" and
> > "eject", since apps menu items already have context menus and it would
> > be just logical that items in the places menu had them too.
>
> Personal
Hi,
Emmanuele Bassi wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 20:26 +0100, David Prieto wrote:
>> I'm open to alternative solutions, anyway. Would it be OK if keyboard
>> navigation just ignored the eject buttons?
>
> it would be an accessibility issue, and I'm positive that the a11y
> people would *not* le
hi;
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 22:54 +0100, David Prieto wrote:
> > an "undiscoverable" feature is like having no feature at all: only the
> > people knowing that there's such a feature will be able to use it, and
> > we'd have a whole slew of people bitching and moaning like we did when
> > we had the
> an "undiscoverable" feature is like having no feature at all: only the
> people knowing that there's such a feature will be able to use it, and
> we'd have a whole slew of people bitching and moaning like we did when
> we had the location dialog opened by Ctrl+L in the FileChooser. sure,
> the f
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 20:26 +0100, David Prieto wrote:
> > Personally, I think the last thing we need is more context menus on
> > menu items... it's probably about the most (unintentionally)
> > undiscoverable feature on our entire desktop.
>
> I might agree, but... how's having an undiscover
> Personally, I think the last thing we need is more context menus on
> menu items... it's probably about the most (unintentionally)
> undiscoverable feature on our entire desktop.
I might agree, but... how's having an undiscoverable feature worse than
not having the feature at all?
I'm open
On 4 Jan 2007, at 15:27, David Prieto wrote:
> We could also add a context menu with "open" and
> "eject", since apps menu items already have context menus and it would
> be just logical that items in the places menu had them too.
Personally, I think the last thing we need is more context menus
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:44 +0200, Kalle Vahlman wrote:
> 2007/1/4, David Prieto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> > Since version 0.5.1, Tomboy is offering a way to pin important notes by
> > pressing a pin icon at the side of the note,like this:
> >
> > http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6149/sinnombr
> While otherwise a decent idea, this makes the menuitem have two
> different actions without clearly stating so. There is visually
> nothing that will tell the user that the eject button is any different
> from the icon before the text. Making it look like a button would sort
> of solve this I gue
2007/1/4, David Prieto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> Since version 0.5.1, Tomboy is offering a way to pin important notes by
> pressing a pin icon at the side of the note,like this:
>
> http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6149/sinnombrejg7.jpg
>
> I think that implementing a similar solution on gnome-
Since version 0.5.1, Tomboy is offering a way to pin important notes by
pressing a pin icon at the side of the note,like this:
http://img525.imageshack.us/img525/6149/sinnombrejg7.jpg
I think that implementing a similar solution on gnome-panel's places
menu would be rather useful. Here you can se
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