Re: [Fwd: Re: GNUstep and Linux Fund]

2009-11-12 Thread Riccardo Mottola
Hi, 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...) What do you think about that? Just becau

Re: [Fwd: Re: GNUstep and Linux Fund]

2009-11-12 Thread Matt Rice
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 8:55 AM, David Chisnall wrote: >  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 t

Re: [Fwd: Re: GNUstep and Linux Fund]

2009-11-12 Thread Robert J. Slover
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

Re: [Fwd: Re: GNUstep and Linux Fund]

2009-11-12 Thread Richard Frith-Macdonald
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

Re: [Fwd: Re: GNUstep and Linux Fund]

2009-11-12 Thread David Chisnall
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 b

Re: [Fwd: Re: GNUstep and Linux Fund]

2009-11-12 Thread hansfbaier
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,

Re: [Fwd: Re: GNUstep and Linux Fund]

2009-11-11 Thread Fred Kiefer
Hans Baier schrieb: > Apart from that, one thing about GNUstep annoys me very much: > The absence of context menus. I don't know currently how OS X handles that, > but often I would find myself right-clicking on something, but the > application menu pops up. The behaviour you describe is the one y

Re: [Fwd: Re: GNUstep and Linux Fund]

2009-11-08 Thread Hans Baier
As for successful open source projects, I found the following reading very valuable: http://producingoss.com/ Kind regards, Hans ___ Gnustep-dev mailing list Gnustep-dev@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnustep-dev

Re: [Fwd: Re: GNUstep and Linux Fund]

2009-11-08 Thread Hans Baier
> GNUstep has lacked and continues to lack good PR, consistent development of > applications. But for the core itself I think the following points would > help us a lot (in no particular order) I think the design Website is - in its current state - a bit outdated: It still appeals to the NeXT era