Re: Galeon gestures

On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 00:42, Jeff Waugh wrote:
> <quote who="Matt Adam"/>
> 
> > * 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.

At the moment, I think this *is* the better method.  It doesn't seem to
be possible to have gestures enabled by default, so that they don't
break anything (much) and that they work reliably.

The delay we tried breaks only slightly the context menu behavior, but
worse, it breaks the reliability making gestures quite hard to use.  One
could try increasing the delay, but it would break the context menu
behavior even more.

I think the delay method simply doesn't work for something as accurate
as gestures (in comparison to simple drags as in nautilus.)

Without the delay it would seriously break the normal context menu
behavior, so it's not really an option to have gestures enabled by
default.  However the gestures are reliable then, like in galeon1.

You can also use the middle mouse button for gestures, without the
complications we get from context menus.  But that'll just switch the
problem to opening links in new window/tab.  If gestures were enabled by
default, the link would need to be opened on mouse-up instead of
mouse-down, again breaking the normal behavior.

One more possibility would be to require holding some key (Ctrl?) for
performing the gestures with the right mouse button.  This could
propably be enabled by default without breaking anything, and it would
be reliable.  The downside is that it breaks the basic idea of the
gestures themselves, as it forces you to use the keyboard in
conjunction.

I think the most usable method is the one Matt suggested.  That's also
how gestures work in galeon1.  For the UI part I have no strong feelings
either way, but a hidden pref is propably sufficient.


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Tommi Komulainen                                 [email protected]
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