Re: Galeon gestures

Matt Adam <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.web.galeon.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> > * Get rid of the delay for the context menu.  Just wait for the mouse-up.
> I strongly, strongly object to this. It removes much of the utility and
> speed of the context menu for a very small fraction of users.
> > * Leave gestures as a hidden pref, defaulted to no.  This means the
> > default behavior doesn't hurt anyone, and context menus popup on mouse
> > down like they should.
> Surely there's a better method of providing gestures? I mean, if you're
> going to do it, do it well.

I'm open to suggestions, of course.  The two items I listed go hand-in-hand; you can't remove the mouse-down delay without having gestures disabled by default.  On the other hand, I think the way it works right now is broken.  I constantly find myself mis-clicking, getting gestures and menus mixed up, etc.

I'm still not convinced that having gestures turned on by default is a good idea.  It seems far too easy for someone not expecting that behavior to really mess themselves up by gesturing by accident.

I was initially in your camp -- my original patch added a UI pref to turn gesturing on and off.  The patch was applied without the UI stuff, and I'm ok with that.  Gestures are a power user feature, and power users can go tweak gconf :)

Matt.


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