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Re: Plans for ahead
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Matt Rice |
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Re: Plans for ahead |
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Mon, 30 Nov 2015 10:55:47 -0800 |
On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Robert Slover <rjslover@me.com> wrote:
>> On Nov 30, 2015, at 04:37, Alessandro Sangiuliano <alex22_7@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>> I think I expressed bad my problem. The Menus appears when I click on the
>> relative App's window, so they are working as expected; but if I have 10
>> windows on the screen, organized to fill all the screen, as a tiled window
>> manager does, when I will click on an App's window, the relative menu
>> have to appear somewhere, but the screen is filled so it will overlaps a
>> window of another App that I probably need to read, so I have to move the
>> menu to another position. This also would happen on a NeXTSTEP system,
>> because is how they designed the architecture of their DE. I'm sorry, but I
>> don't like at all this design, it's also something about tastes, but it is
>> also something about "functionality" if you also think about the Apps' icons
>
> Alex,
>
> I can only think that this would be a real problem on a small, single screen,
> but that may be the reality you have to deal with. On OpenStep at least,
> which I have ran at one point on a tiny (mid-1990s) laptop screen, you could
> position the menu basically off the edge of the screen (leaving just a few
> pixels sticking up from the bottom, is how I did it). You can then get at the
> app's menu as a context menu by right-clicking anywhere on the current app or
> desktop where there wasn't an interactive element (field, button, slider,
> etc.).
>
> I'm not sure how well GNUstep emulates this currently, since all of my
> personal machines are headless.
I don't believe that it currently handles the last case, (right
clicking on the desktop where there isn't an interactive element)...
due to a combination of 2 things: most window managers e.g. window
maker receive the right click and pop up a window, I wrote a wm once
which would forward this event to the currently focused window to pop
up a menu
the second part was getting GNUstep to not ignore this event. IIRC I
got it to pop up the menu, but ran into some difficulty with further
tracking and never got it fully working.
- Re: Plans for ahead, (continued)
- Re: Plans for ahead, Derek Fawcus, 2015/11/30
- Re: Plans for ahead, Liam Proven, 2015/11/30
- Re: Plans for ahead, Riccardo Mottola, 2015/11/29
- Re: Plans for ahead, Adam S, 2015/11/29
- Re: Plans for ahead, Alessandro Sangiuliano, 2015/11/30
- Re: Plans for ahead, Ivan Vučica, 2015/11/30
- Re: Plans for ahead, Robert Slover, 2015/11/30
- Re: Plans for ahead,
Matt Rice <=
- Re: Plans for ahead, Robert Slover, 2015/11/30
- Re: Plans for ahead, Germán Arias, 2015/11/30
- Re: Plans for ahead, Liam Proven, 2015/11/30
- Re: Plans for ahead, richard, 2015/11/29
- Re: Plans for ahead, Adam S, 2015/11/29
- Default preferences (was Re: Plans for ahead), Germán Arias, 2015/11/29
- Re: Default preferences (was Re: Plans for ahead), Gregory Casamento, 2015/11/29
- Re: Plans for ahead, Riccardo Mottola, 2015/11/27
- Re: Plans for ahead, Riccardo Mottola, 2015/11/27