[Thunar-dev] French Thunar article

[Danny Milosavljevic]

Hi,

Am Samstag, den 18.02.2006, 00:20 +0100 schrieb Benedikt Meurer:
> Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> >>He also mentions the mouse gestures for navigation (humm, I
> >>
> >>>>didn't know that myself!), but that sounds rather positive.
> >>>
> >>>Mouse gestures? Someone care to point me in the right direction?
> > 
> >>In the file window, if you click on the middle button (not on a file, on 
> >>the background), you can navigate with the mouse in your tree.
> >>I discovered it yesterday too.
> > 
> > Sigh.. I don't get it why apps use the middle mouse button for mouse
> > gestures... by far the most widely used mouse is 2 buttons + wheel (the
> > latter doubles as "middle" mouse button when you hold really still).
> > 
> > Holding the wheel while moving the mouse (and not moving the wheel) is
> > really hard ...
> > 
> > Having a 5 button mouse, I don't need gestures that much, but... what's
> > the deal with that?
> > 
> > I know that using the right mouse button somewhat clashes with the popup
> > menu when you use the popup menu in a
> > hold-mouse-button-down-move-to-menu-item-then-release-mouse-button way
> > (which I like), but even breaking that would be better than wheel
> > magic...
> 
> It's a hidden feature (actually only available to people who care to
> read the FAQ file), if you want to use it, do it, if not, ignore it (you
> should have no trouble ignoring it).
> 
> The choice for the middle mouse button is simple: (a) both left and
> right button movement is already taken for dnd and rubberband selection
> (afterall that's what people will expect, so no need to confuse them).

you have a point

> So that leaves only the middle button (the wheel button). It's usually
> not used within the file manager (atleast in sane file managers) except
> for opening folders in new windows (-> double middle click), so chances
> are good that people will not press the button on the icon view
> background and be confused because they expected a different behaviour.
> Instead, people will be happy that they have discovered a hidden feature
> (an easter egg), and can afterwards decide to ignore it and just
> continue as usual, or use it.
> 
> Afterall the feature is probably only useful if you are (a) too lazy to
> press Alt+Up or move the mouse to the pathbar, or (b) disable the
> location bar completly and are again to lazy to press Alt+Up. ;-)
> 

True :) (I meant it more as a general comment, I know there isn't really
a way to fix it)

And Easter Eggs are nice :)

cheers,
  Danny