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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: About icon RMB menus
From:       Christoph Niemann <cnieman () suse ! de>
Date:       2003-12-01 10:15:52
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Am Mittwoch, 26. November 2003 23:28 schrieb Marten Klencke:
> Hi,
>
> On Wednesday 26 November 2003 22:11, Hasso Tepper wrote:
> > My propsal: every icon RMB menu should contain most probable actions
> > in top. No more than two of them, they should be carefully chosen
> > etc, but IMHO it makes great difference to the direction of better
> > usability compared with current situation.
>
> It would make sense to have the most common actions as closely available as
> possible, yes. But on the other hand, users tend to not look at the icons
> anymore after a while but more 'feel' the distances. For example, if I want
> open a directory in another window, I right click, move the cursor a bit to
> the right and click. No visuals involved there.

Although, you are right for often used RMB entries, there are many cases that 
require actively searching for the right entry. One example is the notorious 
"Mount/Umount" for CD-ROMs (or other removeable devices). I do not use CDs 
very often. However, I do use the RMB to umount them. Because the entry is 
hidden somewhere in the menu (14th out of 18 entries as of my KDE 3.1), I 
have to scan throught the menu everytime. This does annoy me. 

> I'm not saying the menu's shouldn't be customized per file type. I'm just
> saying that we should be careful about a possible implementation because
> frequent undesired actions could be the consequence for users.



Greetings,
Christoph

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