[ge-talk] Mouseclick options

[Meanwhile -]

Hi Ryan,

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ryan Leavengood" <leavengood at gmail.com>
> To: glasselevator-talk at bug-br.org.br
> Subject: Re: [ge-talk] Mouseclick options
> Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 11:52:50 -0400
> 
> 
> On 7/5/07, Meanwhile - <meanwhile at outgun.com> wrote:
> >
> > Therefore to me, offering the user the extra(!) choice of having a left
> > click function as left doubleclick and thus reducing the amount of
> > mouseclicks by up to 50% when on Haiku, is significant enough for a future
> > Haiku Release 1.
> 
> That particular function of UniversalScroller is more of a hack in my
> opinion. 

It seems to me to be some sort of hack too...

> What would be more likely to be implemented would be a
> "Single click to open" option on Tracker (like on Windows.) I'm
> surprised this doesn't already exist (maybe it does?)

No, it doesn't exist, but it's a better approach I think.
 
The one occasion where the left-single-as-left-double setting from UniversalScroller becomes a bit of a nuisance is when using FireFox & Seamonkey: their 'File- Edit-View-History-Bookmarks-Help' menubar items don't open in this setup.  
I have to use the third mouse button (set up as performing a left-single click in US) to open it. With a Tracker option this "problem" wouldn't exist.


> Anyhow, are there other cases besides Tracker where you have to use a
> double-click but would prefer a single-click?

Actually no, which supports the idea of adapting Tracker.
 
> If this was implemented I would also like to see a nice hover
> indicator that shows what is currently under the cursor and would be
> activated on click. Such as a subtle icon highlighting and/or a text
> underlining (like one can see on links on web-pages sometimes.)

Windows has that option, but I never use it (looks too messy there). I also don't miss it when using BeOS with US, but wouldn't mind if it were possible.
 
> If proper hover indication was implemented I would find this a good
> feature and would probably use it. As a reference I just tested the
> GNOME file browser (Nautilus) and it allows the single-click option to
> be turned on and it activates hover underlining just like I suggested
> above.
> 
> Ryan
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