Re: [MiNT] XaAES 1.18 desktop

[Peter Persson <pep.fishmoose@gmail.com>]

Personally I'd appreciate the NAES way much more. Similar behavior can be found on most operating systems today. Explicitly hiding/displaying the menu using a keyboard combo seems wrong to me.


18 jun 2011 kl. 17:12 skrev "Helmut Karlowski" <helmut.karlowski@ish.de>:

> Am 18.06.2011, 16:55 Uhr, schrieb Jo Even Skarstein <joska@online.no>:
> 
>> On Sat, 2011-06-18 at 16:19 +0200, Helmut Karlowski wrote:
>> 
>>> Actually I don't consider  this issue to be finished yet.
>> 
>> I like the way it's done in N.AES. You can either set the menu to be
>> hidden or visible in n_aes.cnf. If it's visible, everything acts like
>> we're used to (menu always visible, root window origo below menubar).
>> 
>> If it's hidden, the root window geometry is identical to the screen
>> geometry. The menu appears whenever the mouse cursor touches the upper
>> border of the screen. When you leave the menubar, it disappears again.
> 
> I thought to do this, but now I guess it's kinda annoying when suddenly a menu pops up when you move the mouse to a certain place. I won't do this.
> 
> You can always open it with C-A-blank, and it disappears when finished, which I think is much better than the N.AES-way.
> 
> -- 
> Helmut Karlowski
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