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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: proposal for the konqueror sidebar
From:       Stian =?iso-8859-1?Q?S=F8iland?= <stian () soiland ! no>
Date:       2004-05-08 20:44:47
Message-ID: 20040508204447.GR9150 () itea ! ntnu ! no
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On 2004-05-07 19:59:28, Jamethiel Knorth wrote:

> How is this better than having the majority of the bar be the standard 
> action, and having a little divider and then the expansion menu. This is 
> like the Back button in Internet Explorer, except that the entire button 
> can pop-up the menu.

The only thing I can think of is that it could be irritating to wait for
the opening of the submenu, as it might be hard to hit that small area
for expanding.
    

Anyway, I managed to find this screenshot from good old OS/2 - that HAD
this behavour:

    http://www.contact.net/os2/TOUR/page27.htm     

As you see, the menu items "Open as", "Help", "Create another" and "Lock
in place" have submenus behind a [>]-button. The default action is
indicated when opening that item. IBM chose a button to indicate the
combination of a default and possibility to change it.

If you just select "Open as", the selected document will be opened with
the default action.    

Note the other item, "Convert to", that requires a selection and
therefore is not one of these "Default action" menu items.

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