What IGS thinks about the Linux Desktop

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Monday 24 November 2003 09:01, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 24 November 2003 00:33, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Sunday 23 November 2003 04:20, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > > >  o the context menu for a link contains "open in new tab".
> > >
> > > I use the MMB for that.
> >
> > ditto =)
>
> Yeah, but that KDE isn't about you two (or me for that matter), it's
> about end users, who have no way to know about MMB.
> And for people without 3 mouse buttons, MMB emulation is really
> inconvenient. And for anyone switching to Windows now and then,
> taking the habit of MMB is a bad one (gets you a strange scrolling
> cursor in IE) :-) Those are all reasons why it's necessary to have
> 'open in new tab' on links.

Did I say it should be removed? No, I just said that I don't use it.

> > > >  o there is an optional (on by default) New Tab button in the
> > > > tab bar. this isn't a perfect option since the default is to
> > > > have the tab bar turned off when there aren't multiple tabs.
> > >
> > > Exactly.
> >
> > hrm.... i'm half tempted to suggest that it should be on by
> > default. maybe for 3.3 when we attack the toolbars.
>
> Waste of screen space though, for anyone not using tabs.

ACK

> > > BTW, I don't understand why the two options "Duplicate in new
> > > window" and "Duplicate in new tab" are in the context menu. Those
> > > two are hardly often used options and the context menu is still
> > > too large IMO. I'd remove them.
> >
> > yes, i'm not sure what the utility of those options really is =)
>
> I sometimes use the first one (to be able to go back in another
> window, for instance). But the File menu might be enough for that.
> I'm fine with them being removed from the RMB. Oh and this will make
> some room for "view document source" again :-) SCNR.

Any objections against removing the two "Duplicate in ..." actions from 
the context menu?

Regards,
Ingo
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