Constructive feedback from Eugenia

[Luis Pedro Coelho]

Em Friday 12 July 2002 04:40, Eric Christopherson escreveu:
> On Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 03:31:59PM -0700, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > 1) KDesktop -> RMB on Icon -> Open in New Window
> > This is copied from Konqy (hurrah for code sharing) but makes indeed
> > little sense in this context. Should just be "Open" (David, is that hard
> > to change for kdesktop only?)
>
> I agree with this; but also, I've been wondering for quite a long time if
> it would be possible for the context menus for file icons to have a simple
> "Open" item. The item would do exactly the same thing as when you
> double-click on the icon.
>
> Reason? Mainly that in my case at least, I oftentimes right click on a
> file, since I'm in the habit of doing so, but then I realize "oh, I just
> wanted to open it the default way, not to choose some other app or action."
> It just seems a little awkward to have to double click again after that,
> when I could just select "Open" from the menu I opened up. Also, it seems
> asymmetrical having "Open with" items listed in the menu, but no default
> "Open."

There is another reason: consistency with Windows which does that. I know this 
is not a sufficient reason, But IMHO it should be taken into consideration 
what other interfaces do as not to have some user be annoyed when migrating.

HTH,
-- 
Luis Pedro Coelho.

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