From kde-usability  Thu May 06 15:30:50 2004
From: Luciano Montanaro <mikelima () virgilio ! it>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 15:30:50 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: Better usage of screen edges and corners?
Message-Id: <200405061730.50113.mikelima () virgilio ! it>
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On Thursday 06 May 2004 15:40, Malte Cornils wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have recently had some problems with kwin. Since mac-style application menus 
> have shown to have up a better performance/usability than "standard" ones, I 
> tried to use those.
> 
> (the reason: to open a pulldown menu, you throw the mouse upwards, hit the 
> upper screen edge (no need for slowing down) and pull down the menu, instead 
> of locating the menu bar of the specific window, moving there, positioning 
> the mouse on the correct spot, and clicking - see linked article).
> 
> However, with all styles I used, there is a one-pixel border between mac-style 
> menu bar and the screen edge. So, I can move the mouse up quickly to reach 
> the menu bar, but have to revert mouse direction, move down approximately one 
> pixel again, and *then* click. The file menu is especially bad: you could 
> just move the mouse in upper left direction (the fastest possible mouse 
> action besides just clicking) and you would have the file menu, but you have 
> to move the mouse both down and to the right. 

Update libQt.

Luciano
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