| Summary: | Wishlist: wheelmouse support for menus | ||
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| Product: | [Unmaintained] kdelibs | Reporter: | davidhj |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Stephan Kulow <coolo> |
| Status: | CLOSED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | CC: | bluedzins |
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version First Reported In: | unspecified | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | openSUSE | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed/Implemented In: | ||
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Description
davidhj
2002-03-01 13:39:10 UTC
On Friday 01 March 2002 14:39 davidhj@mail.com wrote: > Package: kdelibs > Version: KDE 2.9.0 2 (3.0 beta2) > Severity: wishlist > Installed from: SuSE > Compiler: gcc version 2.95.3 20010315 (SuSE) > OS: Linux (i686) release 2.4.4-4GB > OS/Compiler notes: > > When I first got a wheelmouse back when I was using Win9X I couldn't > figure out what it was for. > > I tried using it to scroll scrollbars. Nope. Couldn't do dropdown lists > either. Damn I couldn't even do menus! > > I was surprised by this. Eventually I figured that it was just for > scrolling documents. > > In KDE the wheelmouse can do a lot of things. There are usability problems > with some of these things. For example as you scroll down a web page you > suddenly find you've altered a select box or started scrolling an embedd= ed > <textarea>. But the fundamental idea of being more flexible seems like a > good one. > > I humbly suggest that you allow the wheelmouse to scroll down menubar > menus. You would click on the menu to open it (I suggest allowing > middle-click to open menus which appears not to be the case) then scroll > down the menu with the mouse and click to choose your option. > > My only usability worry would be the danger of starting this by accident > (as with other mousewheel behaviour). But if you have to click first to > open the menu I don't see how this could happen. > > Less mouse movement is good. Just a suggestion. > Hi! Thanks for your thoughts but that won't work out. Wheelmouse events are me= ant=20 to modify the position within something ( a textfield a document whatever= ).=20 But what you suggest would be inconsistent to what the mouse cursor is mean= t=20 for. If you go to a menu with the cursor then start to scroll with the=20 wheel you would create an inconsistency between what your cursor says and= =20 where the menu is highlighted. That's just not worth it.=20 But the good news are: you can create a widget style that implements this = if you want. But it won't go into KDE if that's only change :) Greetings Stephan --=20 life is too short to make mistakes |