[ge-talk] Mouseclick options

[Kevin Field]

> It seems pulling the double-click speed slider to the right makes 
> left clicks work as rightclicks here...? (tried with a left-as-left-
single click setting in UniversalScroller) 

I'm not quite sure what you mean.  I have my scrollwheel set up as the 
left-double...
 
> > Why would we separate the single-click option from the mouse
> > preferences if that one is in there?
> 
> I agree that wouldn't make much sense, but at the time of writing I 
> didn't think of the possibility of using the Tracker as an answer to 
the issue. Ryan made me understand that that's probably a better idea.

Yeah, actually, I think you're right.  This would imply, then, that we 
don't even need double-clicks in the OS, right?  As long as we can 
guarantee two buttons, we use left for "open" and right for "stats and 
options", generally (in Tracker, web browsers, whatever context.)  So 
we'd just get rid of that as a general OS mouse option, and make it a 
Tracker thing (if people insist on having the option...).

> I think it would be a really nice idea. It could be extended to 
> having some
> sort of a circulr menu instead of a context "menu".  In the sense the 
> menu
> items are displayed AROUND the clicked icon. If someone evere played
> Neverwinter Nights, he shurely understands how this is a really 
> "simple"
> improvement wich great effect.

I remember this coming up on GE a couple years ago.  I think it's 
pretty cool, but it would have to be pretty specific to the context, 
because some context menus (i.e., autogenerated ones in a browser, 
etc.) are too big to put into pies, keeping in mind what Axel said:

> Note that we're trying to have a consistent user interface. It's 
> either 
> all apps behave this way or none. Since this would require heavy 
> changes to the API and all applications, don't expect such radical 
> changes to surface anytime soon.

However, this is GE, after all.  :-)

Actually, I'm not sure I fully agree that it's all or none.  
Consistency is good, but we still have many widgets out there that do 
essentially the same thing.  For example, a top-menu versus a drop-down 
box versus a radio button group.  Would it be that terrible to add a 
pie widget to the group of UI elements available to a developer, and 
use Tracker as a place to show it off?  We could even make *that* a 
user option.

Either way, I think it'd be great to get rid of double-clicks once and 
for all, and just do the left and right thing.  *That* would add 
consistency with web interfaces.  Just not the MS way.  :)

Kev