Hi all, is there a rationale for the world menu on left mouse button only in Pharo 4? (and world contents on the right mouse button) Mine would be: - if I press a pull down menu (press a menu bar item or a pull down menu), it's the left mouse button. - If I look for a menu on a non-button thing, it's the right mouse button, i.e. contextual menu. Now, should I consider that the Pharo background is a huge pull-down menu button to understand the rationale behind having the world menu on the left-mouse button? Thierry -- Thierry Goubier CEA list Laboratoire des Fondations des Systèmes Temps Réel Embarqués 91191 Gif sur Yvette Cedex France Phone/Fax: +33 (0) 1 69 08 32 92 / 83 95
Hi all,
is there a rationale for the world menu on left mouse button only in Pharo 4? (and world contents on the right mouse button)
Simplifying mouseDown: following the cleaning made on Bloc by alain. It was strange to have two different ways to show the list of windows and also wht left and right should do the same. In Pharo 3.0 I get the same (see attachement) menu. So I do not understand how useful it is. This idea of meta and operate looks a bit old fashioned to me (totgther with the defaultYellowButtonPressed kind of code :) Morphic is a gigantic beast and removing complexity is the only way. Now if you have an good argument post of fix. Stef
Mine would be: - if I press a pull down menu (press a menu bar item or a pull down menu), it's the left mouse button. - If I look for a menu on a non-button thing, it's the right mouse button, i.e. contextual menu.
Now, should I consider that the Pharo background is a huge pull-down menu button to understand the rationale behind having the world menu on the left-mouse button?
Thierry
On 28 juin 2014, at 09:45, stepharo <stepharo@free.fr> wrote:
Hi all,
is there a rationale for the world menu on left mouse button only in Pharo 4? (and world contents on the right mouse button)
Simplifying mouseDown: following the cleaning made on Bloc by alain. It was strange to have two different ways to show the list of windows and also wht left and right should do the same. In Pharo 3.0 I get the same (see attachement) menu. So I do not understand how useful it is. This idea of meta and operate looks a bit old fashioned to me (totgther with the defaultYellowButtonPressed kind of code :)
Morphic is a gigantic beast and removing complexity is the only way. Now if you have an good argument post of fix.
Stephane, I think Thierry is right, and the menu invocation button can be easily changed. We should follow the user interface standards. right button -> world menu (contextual menu) left button -> selection/multi-selection/dragging Cheers Alain
Stef
Mine would be: - if I press a pull down menu (press a menu bar item or a pull down menu), it's the left mouse button. - If I look for a menu on a non-button thing, it's the right mouse button, i.e. contextual menu.
Now, should I consider that the Pharo background is a huge pull-down menu button to understand the rationale behind having the world menu on the left-mouse button?
Thierry
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