[554] in Athena User Interface
Re: Configuration of sawfish, panel, gnome-terminal, control-center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Mon Jan 1 11:35:36 2001
Message-Id: <200101011635.LAA20000@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
cc: "Christopher D. Beland" <beland@MIT.EDU>, aui@MIT.EDU, sbjones@MIT.EDU,
tibbetts@MIT.EDU
In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jan 2001 01:34:40 EST."
<200101010634.BAA16703@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 11:35:31 -0500
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
On 1/1 Greg wrote:
> >> * Menus (also determined by the site-defaults file)
>
> Based on what you said, it sounds like this is best:
>
> Left button - Window ops, including "new terminal window"
> Middle button - List of windows
> Right button - Allocate for FM
I think that it is important not to have different root menus than
GNOME has by default. Eventually GNOME will be an important platform,
and it would be good if users didn't have to differentiate between
Athena-GNOME and regular GNOME. (Yes, we are already screwing around
with the theme. I object, but whatever.)
Not only that, but this layout of buttons does not reflect the
standard button bindings, that tend to be followed throughout GNOME:
Left button - Primary functionality.
Middle button - Extra functionality. GNOME tends to presume that
users have a 2 button mouse with chord middle and
that they may not realize the existance of the
middle button. Linux weenies.
Right button - Properties/other actions/context menu
Following this standard, we get something like:
Left button - File manager (primary use)
Middle button - ???
Right button - window ops, desktop properties, list of windows
I think this is what the rest of GNOME is doing. I am less sure about
the middle button, I think it might get you the main menu or something
similar. The important thing is that we follow what GNOME is doing,
unless we conclude that it is really, really braindead.
tibbetts
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