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From: "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: tool bar: mouse-2, mouse-3, C-mouse-1, S-mouse-1?
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 07:57:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43EC396C.4030607@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873bis4pwm.fsf@jurta.org>

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.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-02-10  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-21 16:10 tool bar: mouse-2, mouse-3, C-mouse-1, S-mouse-1? Reiner Steib
2006-01-31 16:50 ` Reiner Steib
2006-02-06  7:47   ` Juri Linkov
2006-02-07 20:32     ` Reiner Steib
2006-02-08  9:18       ` Juri Linkov
2006-02-08 17:36         ` Reiner Steib
2006-02-09 17:34           ` Juri Linkov
2006-02-09 21:18             ` Reiner Steib
2006-02-10  6:57             ` Jan D. [this message]
2006-02-11  1:03               ` Juri Linkov
2006-02-12 18:17                 ` Jan Djärv
2006-02-09 21:22         ` tool bar: C-... and S-... fail in GTK builds (was: tool bar: mouse-2, mouse-3, C-mouse-1, S-mouse-1?) Reiner Steib
2006-02-10  0:57           ` tool bar: C-... and S-... fail in GTK builds Juri Linkov
2006-02-14 10:10             ` Jan D.
2006-02-14 17:43               ` Juri Linkov
2006-02-15 10:57                 ` Jan D.

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