From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Reiner Steib Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: tool bar: mouse-2, mouse-3, C-mouse-1, S-mouse-1? Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:36:49 +0100 Organization: Dept. of Theoretical Physics, University of Ulm Message-ID: References: <87zml4aocl.fsf@jurta.org> <871wye18w2.fsf@jurta.org> Reply-To: Reiner Steib NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1139432786 847 80.91.229.2 (8 Feb 2006 21:06:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:06:26 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 08 22:06:24 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F6wVb-0002Sl-4Z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 22:05:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F6wVa-0006Jh-Ht for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 16:05:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F6ts2-000293-7n for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 13:16:51 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1F6tUu-0006CJ-5M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:53:29 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1F6tOo-000513-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:46:39 -0500 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1F6tSA-0001QZ-Hj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 12:50:06 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1F6tNv-0005ul-Bx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:45:43 +0100 Original-Received: from bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de ([134.60.10.123]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:45:43 +0100 Original-Received: from Reiner.Steib by bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 08 Feb 2006 18:45:43 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Lines: 44 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de X-Face: 1; h7XMU[7l}$T@J.D}5z*w8Tg'}B5ArAWc8>2X~otB; kOjKs8X%|hTC#dG:%Vpx")x7S/`v :VXU#fZW$X$zdhEU.RfVQ@<-m9IuN{Hm"fW{,5]6kR'M*vEs+{5Cj!L(JTRzA$(},?5J=sm; %Od List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:50211 Archived-At: On Wed, Feb 08 2006, Juri Linkov wrote: > (info "(elisp)Tool Bar") describes how to add modifiers to the fake > function keys in the tool bar, but really the following sample code > has no effect: > > (define-key tool-bar-map [S-help] 'info) ` k [C-help]' crashed Emacs here, but maybe it was not directly related to that action. (See emacs-pretest-bug, MID or later on ). >>> A good thing for mouse-3 to do on the tool bar icon is to display a popup >>> menu with more related actions, [...] >> >> I'm not a usability expert, but I think tool bar icon commands should >> not popup menus (as the Emacs help icon does: duplicating the Help >> menu item). > > 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 does, no matter at which tool bar position you click . But I agree that in Emacs could do as you suggest. >> The different commands I have in mind for Gnus are variations of the >> Reply command (e.g. with or without citing the text) or >> gnus-summary-sort-by-whatever and the reverse sort. > > Good idea. Thanks. Bye, Reiner. -- ,,, (o o) ---ooO-(_)-Ooo--- | PGP key available | http://rsteib.home.pages.de/