On Thu, 2005-11-03 at 12:59 +0100, Estradin Solaris wrote:
> Actually applets need quite a lot of work, HIG-wise, because they > behaviour is terribly inconsistent. All of them should behave like a > drop-down menu, with no right click or with a consistent right click > behaviour. Certainly that's a quite urgent problem to be addressed. > Maybe we should file a bug in the guidelines? By all means file a bug, but I think we're unlikely to go as far as you suggest. There is certainly a class of applets that could behave like menus, but there are also plenty that shouldn't-- e.g. when you click on the workspace switcher, it would be useful if it switched your workspace, rather than popping up a menu :) Cheeri, Calum. -- CALUM BENSON, Usability Engineer Sun Microsystems Ireland mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Java Desktop System Group http://ie.sun.com +353 1 819 9771 Any opinions are personal and not necessarily those of Sun Microsystems _______________________________________________ Usability mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/usability
