Re: [Fwd: Re: GNUstep and Linux Fund]

[David Chisnall]

On 12 Nov 2009, at 16:49, address@hidden wrote:

> > This allows to display any menu (set via setMenu:) as the popup  
> > menu of
> > the view. It is up to the application programmer to use or ignore  
> > this
> > feature.
>
> Thanks for the explanation. I supposed so.
> So the issue is rather the default behavior;
> I would suggest rather do nothing on right mouse click,
> since that is how things work in all OSes I know of.
> (And the app menu is visible all the time anyway...)

This might make sense if you are in using the Windows or Mac interface  
styles, but I don't really like it.  Having the main menu a single  
click away without having to move the mouse is a good design from the  
point of view of usability.  A menu that appears where the mouse is  
beats both a menu attached to the window and a menu attached to the  
screen in Fitts' Law terms.

The difference on OS X is that most views tend to have some kind of  
context menu, while most in GNUstep apps don't.

David

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