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Re: Item for TODO?
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Item for TODO? |
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Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:53:58 +0100 |
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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> I can configure a menu-item as a button in X, but if I do the
> same on a tty it just presents me with a list of completions (of
> top-level menu items). ... Thats not true. Text-only does not
> mean "no mouse". The command tmm-menubar-mouse can be invoked by
> clicking on on the menubar with the mouse.
>
> If mouse selection doesn't work right for a menu bar item that has
> no menu, then it's a bug. Fixing it should be much easier than
> adding a separate tool bar. Also, since it is a bug fix, it is ok
> to do it now.
>
> I still don't think that a tool bar would have any advantage over
> the menu bar, for a tty.
The difference between a toolbar and a menu is that the toolbar
contains immediate actions, only the most important ones. The screen
real estate on a tty is limited: our current implementation of
keyboard menus is not really convenient for use with a mouse, but can
be configured to take away no space when not used. Implementing a
toolbar would at least require short button names: I don't think that
we have them available in general. Maybe one would need mouse-over
action that changes a button [Pre] to [Preview] or similar.
mouse-over action would also make possible having a menu just appear
when the mouse cursor is in the top tty row.
Anyway, there are a number of things that might be worth thinking
about, in particular in connection with mouse-over (and don't forget
that at the time frames we are talking of, we also might negotiate
mouse-over events with gpm and xterm people).
But that discussion is something for after the release, at best. I
think it would take even too much time to agree on something
definitive for the TODO file.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: Item for TODO?, (continued)
Re: Item for TODO?, Richard Stallman, 2005/01/21