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From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Subject: RE: [drew.adams@oracle.com: Customizevaluemenudoesn'trecognizemouse-2]
Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 09:16:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <EIENLHALHGIMHGDOLMIMEEEHCKAA.drew.adams@oracle.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1G89QN-0002nq-OZ@fencepost.gnu.org>

    Because on the menu bar, mouse-2 doesn't activate the menu on
    MS-Windows (and with some X toolkits, such as Motif).

So, let the inconsistency appear there, where it won't hurt: If mouse-2
cannot open the menu-bar menu, then there is no harm in letting mouse-2
choose an item from the menu (if opened by mouse-1).

In that case, the inconsistency 1) allows more functionality, not less, and
2) will not arise, in practice, because the inability occurs in the
initiating action, _opening_ the menu, not in the followup action, choosing
from it.

IOW, it is better to 1) have mouse-2 be unable to open the (menu-bar) menu
(even if it lets you select from it, once opened) than to 2) let mouse-2
open the (Customize value) menu but then not let you select from it. Users
will fall into a trap with #2, but not with #1.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-02 16:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-24 18:22 [drew.adams@oracle.com: Customize value menu doesn't recognize mouse-2] Richard Stallman
2006-07-24 19:19 ` Chong Yidong
2006-07-24 20:12   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-24 20:52     ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: Customize value menu doesn't recognizemouse-2] Drew Adams
2006-07-29 10:55       ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: Customize value menu doesn't recognize mouse-2] Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-29 20:01         ` Luc Teirlinck
2006-07-31  4:38         ` Richard Stallman
2006-07-31 16:59           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-07-31 22:17             ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-01  3:19               ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-01  3:33                 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: Customize value menu doesn't recognizemouse-2] Drew Adams
2006-08-01  7:10                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-01 13:43                     ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: Customize value menu doesn'trecognizemouse-2] Drew Adams
2006-08-01 14:25                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-01 15:19                         ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: Customize value menudoesn'trecognizemouse-2] Drew Adams
2006-08-01 15:59                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-01 16:16                             ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: Customize valuemenudoesn'trecognizemouse-2] Drew Adams
2006-08-01 16:41                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-01 16:58                                 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: Customizevaluemenudoesn'trecognizemouse-2] Drew Adams
2006-08-01 17:36                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02  3:38                                     ` rms
2006-08-02  5:29                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02  6:17                                         ` David Kastrup
2006-08-02  7:13                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 16:16                                         ` [drew.adams@oracle.com:Customizevaluemenudoesn'trecognizemouse-2] Drew Adams
2006-08-02  3:38                                 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: Customize valuemenudoesn'trecognizemouse-2] rms
2006-08-02  5:37                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 16:16                                     ` Drew Adams [this message]
2006-08-02 21:20                                     ` Richard Stallman
2006-08-02  3:38                             ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: Customize value menudoesn'trecognizemouse-2] rms
2006-08-02  5:13                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02 16:16                                 ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: Customize valuemenudoesn'trecognizemouse-2] Drew Adams
2006-08-02 17:59                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-08-02  3:38                       ` [drew.adams@oracle.com: Customize value menu doesn'trecognizemouse-2] rms
2006-08-02  5:34                         ` Eli Zaretskii

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