Melinda Green schrieb: > The solution is to use a "flyout" button instead of regular buttons. Good idea. Also, I think the very same options should be made available in the context menu when you click someone's name (or even chat) in a conference/group session or local chat. I think we can live with some UI redundancy as long as it's unobtrusive when it increases comfort by having the most important actions always "at your fingertips" whatever you might be doing just now. > Using this approach we can use whichever default operation makes the > most sense in each situation, with the rest of the operations in the > drop-down. If desired, we can probably even code it to automatically > switch defaults depending upon friend online status, etc. I don't think we should change the defaults automagically, that'd be confusing. Also it'd again bring up the usability race condition of clicking the button while the contact is logging in or out, resulting in another action than intended. Choose as the default action something that's often needed and is always available (e.g., the current button's functionality, opening the profile). For the flyout, just enable/disable (grey out) entries depending on context/state, but keep the list the same.
cheers Boroondas PS: Wouldn't this discussion be suitable for the sl-ux list? _______________________________________________ Policies and (un)subscribe information available here: http://wiki.secondlife.com/wiki/SLDev Please read the policies before posting to keep unmoderated posting privileges
