Thus spake barbanera:
I can’t recall any GUI I’ve seen that raises a context menu by left-
or
double-clicking—I would find that surprising. Can you give an
example
of one?Well, I don’t know about you, but just about 95% of what I do on my
computer, from editing
a text or surfing the web or watching a video, is left-click or
double-left-click controlled.
Note that I asked specifically about raising context menus, not
interaction generally.
I know that replacing right click menu with anything else (like a
context sensitive toolbar
or sidebar) is a LOT more development work.
Whether it is or isn’t a lot of work doesn’t cut any ice with me,
because changes like this would go into VASSAL 4, not VASSAL 3. I’m
mainly interested in whether what you propose is a better design.
The thing which I expect would be frustraing about replacing context
menus with a tool- or sidebar is that these need not be anywhere near
the piece being manipulated, so would require much more mousing than
what we have now (or would drive everyone to learn the hotkeys).
Anyway, to go back to the original argument, If you right click on this
page do you see
“Back CTRL-B”, “Reload CTRL-X”, “Print ALT-F10” or just “Back”,
“Reload”, “Print” ?
That’s interesting—I’d not noticed before which programs have hotkeys
indicated in context menus and which don’t. (I’m checking this on
Linux.) Firefox, evince, eog, gnome-terminal, nemiver, and kcachegrind do
not. GIMP and Inkscape do. Eclipse does for a few context menu items, but
there are ones which I know have hotkeys that it doesn’t display. Gvim
doesn’t have context menus.
–
J.