From: Dirk W. <dw...@sc...> - 2006-01-23 19:37:33
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Strange, I highly prefer the use of context menus (using right click), in fact in any program it's the first thing I try when wanting to manipulate an object (and I don't know the keyboard shortcut for the action). So for me, context menu's, yes please. It _greatly_ enhances user friendliness/productivity providing that we are talking about true context sensitive menu's, and not a duplicate of the general menu bar. The current 'context'-menu of XtrkCad has not much added value. On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 19:37, Martin Fischer wrote: > David, > > personally I agree on the usability on the right click menu. Interestingly user interface design research shows that only a small minority of PC users actually makes use of the right mouse button! > > The context menu should be used for the most used funtions that are needed in the current context. As of today XTC has *all* commands there which is total overkill. > > Interesting question will be: what are the most used functions? I personally would only put undo, redo, cut, paste and copy, maybe join and modify there. > > My suggestion to solve that question would be to remove everything and then add functions based on user feedback. > > What do you think? > > Regards > Martin > > > > > Interesting, Martin. I find the right-click context menus very user > > friendly, more so than having to find the right button or pull-down > > menu. At least for the major operations, such as join, modify, > > elevation, move, etc. > > > > Different perspective perhaps. > > > > David > > > > On Jan 23, 2006, at 12:33 PM, Martin Fischer wrote: > > > > > > > > Also I think I'd remove almost everything from the context menus > > > ( right click or shift right click ). While context menus can be > > > helpful, they should be restricted to the absolutely necessary. > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > > _______________________________________________ > > xTrkCad mailing list > > <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtrkcad-fork">http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtrkcad-fork</a> > > > > Xtrkcad-fork-developers mailing list > > Xtr...@li... > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xtrkcad-fork-developers > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files > for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes > searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=103432&bid=230486&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > xTrkCad mailing list > <a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtrkcad-fork">http://sourceforge.net/projects/xtrkcad-fork</a> > > Xtrkcad-fork-developers mailing list > Xtr...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xtrkcad-fork-developers |