Re: Wishlist - bring back the features
Benjamin Kahn <[email protected]>
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Here's why this functionality is important: http://primates.ximian.com/~xkahn/silly-galeon.html Try right clicking in different places in this document. If you want to see what's happening, hit Ctrl-a. (Notice that once text is selected, it's impossible to get a back button at all until text is unselected.) Anyway, it seems to me that either the back button is in the context menu all the time, or it isn't there at all. Esp. since examples like these aren't all that far-fetched. On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 14:51, Tommi Komulainen wrote: > On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 20:51, Benjamin Kahn wrote: > > But Galeon's goals and Mozilla's goals are somewhat different. > > Personally, I find the loss of the back button in certain areas of the > > screen terrible for consistency and UI. (I actually didn't look at the > > menu which popped up the first few times and just assumed that back was > > going to be there. I was very annoyed that back had left.) > > > > So! What was Mozilla's reason for removing it, and does the Galeon > > project agree with their reasoning? > > Probably this[1]: > > "Right. I couldnāt include Back and Forward in every menu in my > spec, because that would put every other item in the menu in an > inconsistent position." > > > I'm not sure I've fully understood the comment, but I think it's related > to the principle of putting the 'default action' item as the first one > in the context menu. We're conveniently ignoring this rule, but still > the context menu is sometimes rather long. Not including 'Back' in > every menu is helping to keep the context menu size more bearable. > > The thing is, Marco designed the context menus initially and we haven't > much bothered with them since. However, I feel we should be trying to > keep the context menu as short as possible. > > > 1. http://mpt.phrasewise.com/2002/04/08 -- Benjamin Kahn <[email protected]> ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email sponsored by: Free pre-built ASP.NET sites including Data Reports, E-commerce, Portals, and Forums are available now. Download today and enter to win an XBOX or Visual Studio .NET. http://aspnet.click-url.com/go/psa00100003ave/direct;at.aspnet_072303_01/01