[555] in Athena User Interface
Re: Configuration of sawfish, panel, gnome-terminal, control-center
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Mon Jan 1 11:48:09 2001
Message-Id: <200101011648.LAA17398@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
Cc: aui@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 01 Jan 2001 11:35:31 EST."
<200101011635.LAA20000@hikari-no-ken.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 11:48:05 -0500
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
> I think that it is important not to have different root menus than
> GNOME has by default.
What does "GNOME" mean here? Is that gnome-with-enlightenment or
gnome-with-sawfish? I don't think we want the default sawfish root
menus.
> Left button - Primary functionality.
[...]
> 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 guess that depends on whether you see the file manager or the window
manager as having the "primary use" of the root window, and whether
you think the file manager menu or the window manager menu best fits
the idea of "properties/other actions/context menu".
Really, "primary use" usually means "click and something happens",
not, "click and a menu comes up", and there's no natural action for
the root window. That's an argument for having a left click do
nothing, and having the right button do window manager, file manager,
and desktop property operations (bit of a technical nightmare).
