To: discussions about usage and development of dia <dia-list gnome org>
Subject: Re: Prerelease of 0.94 is out
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 23:24:18 +0200
On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 19:43, Alan Horkan wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Jul 2004, Roland Stigge wrote:
>
> > Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 16:32:34 +0200
> > From: Roland Stigge <stigge antcom de>
> > Reply-To: discussions about usage and development of dia
> > <dia-list gnome org>
> > To: discussions about usage and development of dia <dia-list gnome org>
> > Subject: Re: Prerelease of 0.94 is out
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-07-15 at 00:40, Alan Horkan wrote:
> > > Dia had a document menubar long before other programs did, [...]
> >
> > Didn't know this. :) Just tried it. But don't understand why the context
> > version of the menu is disabled when the menu bar is activated.
>
> Dia also has a "middle click" context menu which really sucks if you have
> only two buttons on your mouse. The middle click context menu is
> accessible by right clicking when the menubar is enable.
>
> In the long run just about everything should be accessible without needing
> to resort to a context menu (I might even go so far as to want to make Dia
> usable without a mouse/pointing device but that would probably be a bit
> much). For the moment it is unfortunately necessary.
I'd rather say that the context menus should be accessible to non-mouse
users. In case you haven't noticed, context menus have become more an
more common, as they really put the info in, well, context. I'd like to
see more, such as more context help.
-Lars