On Wednesday 14,April,2010 09:54 PM, Frederik Nnaji wrote: > On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 14:00, Chow Loong Jin <hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx > <mailto:hyperair@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: > > Then how about middle click activating a "default action" of an > indicator? > > [...] > > I think this would lead to the same kind of standardization that the > application > indicators is supposed to bring, without cutting back too much on > functionality -- a good compromise. > > middle click is desktop-specific. > a netbook, (sub-)notebook, tablet or touchscreen device would not > support that action without an additional modifyer. Really? I thought all Ubuntu installations had 3-button emulation enabled (left+right click = middle click) by default, which I had mentioned in my previous post (the one between this one and the quoted one). At the very least, it is enabled on my notebook, and I have heard from #ubuntu-desktop that evdev (the X driver for input devices) has this emulation enabled by default. > using the middle button would also be inconsistent with Gnome's current > guidelines, see: > http://library.gnome.org/devel/hig-book/stable/input-mouse.html.en#mouse-buttons > according to the above guidelines, usage of the middle button would in > this particular case be addressed to the advanced user only, thereby > resulting in being a "hidden treasure". This is exactly the use case we are going for. We want a *shortcut* to default actions in the indicator for *advanced* users. -- Kind regards, Chow Loong Jin (GPG: 0x8F02A411) Ubuntu Developer
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