From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Buffer menu fix
Date: Tue, 6 Sep 2005 16:15:13 +1200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17181.6097.31018.985629@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vf1evpnw.fsf@stupidchicken.com>
> > > > because then the header line can then respond to mouse-1 clicks
> > > > and still be dragged (try it on the mode-line to see what I
> > > > mean).
> > >
> > > You can drag it by clicking on any part of the header line outside the
> > > button text. Again, this is the same as Info-mode.
> >
> > In that case I suggest that this is also changed in Info-mode.
>
> Why? It is much more convenient to allow users to click on a link. If
> the user wants to move the header line (which is not something that
> people do frequently, anyway), all she has to do is to move the mouse
> two milimeters to the left, outside the button. This is what people
> are used to in all other graphical applications -- no one sees a
> button and thinks, "Yeah, that's for resizing the window."
The choice isn't between clicking or dragging, its between clicking or
clicking *and* dragging. You're adding a line of code that just prevents the
header line from being dragged at that point. It seems a bit pointless.
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-06 4:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-04 19:16 Buffer menu fix Chong Yidong
2005-09-05 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-05 12:31 ` Chong Yidong
2005-09-05 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-05 22:18 ` Chong Yidong
2005-09-05 23:16 ` Chong Yidong
2005-09-06 4:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-09-06 8:09 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2005-09-06 19:49 ` Chong Yidong
2005-09-06 23:01 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-09-07 0:08 ` Chong Yidong
2005-09-07 12:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2005-09-07 13:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2005-09-08 6:02 ` Chong Yidong
2005-09-07 23:55 ` Chong Yidong
2005-09-05 7:14 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-05 23:58 ` Nick Roberts
2005-09-06 0:23 ` Chong Yidong
2005-09-06 1:16 ` Nick Roberts
2005-09-06 3:30 ` asdf
2005-09-06 4:15 ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2005-09-06 19:17 ` Chong Yidong
2005-09-06 11:22 ` Richard M. Stallman
2005-09-06 19:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-06 9:55 Tomas Zerolo
2005-09-06 21:41 ` Kevin Rodgers
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