From: Peter G. <ge...@cs...> - 2004-03-16 22:14:29
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On Tue, 16 Mar 2004 16:01:51 +0100 Jonatan Liljedahl <th...@ho...> wrote: > Not right-clicking on the toolbar I think, becouse right-clicking is > already used by some of the buttons. Right-click on the background > sounds good though. (But it's hard to click the background in > listmode). I second that. In most file managers - and most applications, for that matter - the toolbar is a distinct entity from the data area. If it does anything at all, right-clicking on the toolbar is used for customizing the toolbar, not for changing the data area. I'm in favor of a click on the background area bringing up the root menu. I would have done that in the patch, but it wasn't immediately obvious to me how to detect that, and I didn't want to turn a small patch into a big undertaking. ;) I'm not sure about an extra entry on the file menu, but I think it's a better solution than right-clicking the toolbar. The list view issue was the entire reason I swapped the regluar and ctrl-modified right-click behavior and advertised it in the tooltip rather than always using the file menu. I have very mixed feelings about the current list view behavior. Not only is it very hard to right-click without hitting a file, it's also very hard to "lasso" files for multiple selection. In fact, I always end up ctrl-clicking on all the items I want. On the other hand, it's nice not to have to trace the detail line all the way back to the filename to select a file. Perhaps the best solution would be to add some empty space to the detail lines. For example, if there's no image preview, maybe clicking that section on the left should not select the file. ------ Peter A. Geer ge...@cs... http://www.cs.sunyit.edu/~geerp/ "If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin |