Re: tool bar: mouse-2, mouse-3, C-mouse-1, S-mouse-1?

["Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>]

Juri Linkov wrote:

>>>I think only mouse-1 should not popup menus, but in many modern
>>>applications mouse-3 is a standard way to show a popup menu
>>>with a complete list of items related to the main item invoked
>>>via mouse-1.
>>>      
>>>
>>I don't recall an application offering a menu on mouse-3 specific to a
>>certain tool bar button.  E.g. Firefox 1.5 displays the same as <Menu>
>><View> <Toolbars> does, no matter at which tool bar position you click
>><mouse-3>.
>>    
>>
>
>What I meant is that in Firefox [mouse-3] on a tab pops up a menu of
>tab-related actions other than activating a tab as [mouse-1] does.
>Also [mouse-3] on a link pops up a menu of link-related actions,
>on an image - a menu of image-related actions and so on.  Emacs could do
>the same for the toolbar icons.  Even in Firefox [mouse-3] on the [Back]
>toolbar button displays a list of all previous nodes.
>  
>

I for one dislike that.  For example, the normal mouse-3 menu in Firefox 
has "Reload" and "Back", which I use from time to time.  But if you 
happen to be over a link or an image when you click mouse-3, there is no 
"Back" or "Reload" in those menus.  Quite annoying.

    Jan D.