New style of desktop!

[Nordin Ingenieur]

>
> This maneuver is called "chording" and requires good motor skills. It
> is undesired. (Gnome HIG: "Do not require the use of chording
> (pressing multiple mouse buttons simultaneously) for any operations.")
>
> If users without a middle button do have (discoverable) way to invoke
> the menu, then no problem. (Or if we throw these user over board.)
>

Well if not with the mouse, we can do it with the keyboard, and use the
"start" button instead.
Like Compiz Fusion, we attach i.e. the Start-button to show or hide the
menu.


>
> (If I understood it correctly) there is a suggestion to add
> possibility to open Application, Settings, Administration menus
> anywhere (or anywhere on desktop wallpaper?). And perhaps remove the
> existing always-visible menu?
>

Yes, just like Compiz Fusion. If you are surfing the web with Firefox, you
can pop up the menu just by clicking the start-button. Since Microsoft
managed to have almost all keyboard in the world to have a Start-button, we
can use it for the menu purpose.


>
> If the existing always-visible menu is removed then I do not know how
> and when to tell user how to invoke the menu.
>

Tell the user to push on the Start-button (we call it from now on
Menu-button).


>
> Different mobile phones have different user interface and the user
> interface is still evolving, so the operation will not be familiar to
> other people. Computers have more interaction options, which might be
> better exploited in this use case.
>

Sorry, I'm not agree with you about that. If someone just only knows he has
to push on the Menu-button, than the rest speaks of them self. I mean a user
totally unfamiliar with computers sees a menu in front of his nose, than
it's not hard for him to try to click on the Application-icon, or another
icon. If he gets nervous, he just click on the back button of the
menu-interface. Most mobilephones simply work that way, almost every
mobilephone has a button for menu, the rest of it is obvious.


>
> Also, since the middle button would be used by environment, it would
> not be available to applications. (Although Gnome HIG recommends "Do
> not assign any actions exclusively to the middle button" it is  useful
> in some cases.)
>

Well, than we use our Menu-button instead :)


Kind regards,

Andaluz
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