RE: A first impressions with using MrProject

Kurt Maute <[email protected]> Fri, 17 Jan 2003 06:07:16 -0800 (PST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnome.apps.mr-project.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
--- Aivo Kalu <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > Now I see it. Thats good,  now I think there
> are no 
> > problems to use the
> > > > program for my work. Anyway, possibility to
> drag the task 
> > in Gantt view
> > > > would be quicker :)
> > > 
> > > Yeah, we've been discussing exactly how to do
> it... when you drag a
> > > task, it could automatically set a
> start-no-later-than 
> > constraint, and
> > > also mark the task as such somehow. Or we could
> make it 
> > only do that if
> > > you hold Control or Shift or something, to make
> it less easy to set
> > > constraints by mistake. 
> > 
> > Well, yes, but it can also lead to some trouble,
> according to the
> > window manager, shift-click and/or ctrl-click
> might have special
> > behaviour... A right click and then "move" from a
> popup is also
> > a good solution.
> 
> Perhaps it would be a good idea use the middle
> button of the mouse ? 

Personally, I prefer the right click and drag with a
popup giving options.  It is the familiar approach for
folks migrating from M$ Windows, and should allow easy
addition of other options in the popup.

(also because I don't have a middle button on my
mouse)
  :)


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Kurt Maute
[email protected]

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