[Bf-committers] Issues with drop-down menus.
Ton Roosendaal
bf-committers@blender.org
Wed, 22 Oct 2003 14:49:59 +0200
Hi,
What is a menu-tab? I read your mail 4 times, but cant get the clue.
-Ton-
On Monday, Oct 20, 2003, at 18:01 Europe/Amsterdam, Nathan Vegdahl
wrote:
> A little something that I think needs to be changed in the
> interface:
> menu-tabs should *always* be on the left side of the menu-buttons.
>
> My reasoning for this is as follows (follow the points in order):
>
> 1. Menu-options are all left-aligned with
> the parent menu-button.
>
> 2. Menu-options that are shorter than their
> parent menu-button have empty space on
> the right.
>
> 3. If the first menu-option is shorter than
> the menu-button, and if the user clicks
> and drags down from the right side of the
> menu-button, then the cursor falls over
> empty space and the menu disappears.
>
> 4. The user almost invariably clicks on the
> tab of the menu-button, and not the text.
>
> 5. Thus, by putting the tab on the right side
> of the menu-button, you're setting up
> the user to have the menu disappear when
> they drag the mouse down.
>
> Therefore, I think it should be a rule that menu's always have
> their tabs on
> the left side of the menu-button, never on the right.
>
> EXAMPLE: I noticed this problem when creating "themes". The menu
> nearest the
> bottom of the screen in the themes window has its tab on the right,
> and it has
> menu-options that are shorter than the menu-button.
>
> I'm not sure if this problem exists elsewhere in the GUI or not,
> but even if
> it doesn't I think that sticking to the "menu-tabs stay on the left"
> rule would
> be a good idea for the sake of consistency and to prevent problems in
> the
> future.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> (P.S. Sorry for being so long-winded.)
>
> --Nathan "Cessen" Vegdahl
>
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