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Re: Hovering to open items on the top panel

 

On Thursday 22,April,2010 10:51 PM, Luke Benstead wrote:
> I've just been thinking about the new indicators, and how there were
> some complaints about it adding a click to get to stuff in the menus.
> Then I thought, it would be pretty cool if all the menus on the panel
> (including Applications, Places, System, Me menu, Indicators and the
> calendar ) opened on hover. That would reduce pretty much any action
> on the top panel to a single click (e.g. launching a program, opening
> a folder, setting your status etc.)
> 
> It makes a lot of sense especially with complaints about hitting the
> close button on maximized windows accidentally etc. if the
> Applications menu appeared on hover that would remove that risk.

It makes the accidental hover over these menus a lot more painful. I'd rather
not have this.

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Kind regards,
Chow Loong Jin

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