(patch) Review Request: Fancy-schmancy Kickoff layout tricks for dissident panel placements

[Marco Martin]

On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Sven Burmeister wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008, Marco Martin wrote:
> > for the click-tabs vs mousehover question: i would use this simple patch
> > that makes switch the tab with click and on mousehover only when the left
> > mouse button is pressed already.
> > example: the user presses the mouse button to pop up the menu and moves
> > the mouse over another tab with the button still pressed and the tab
> > changes automatically, a behaviour common in popup menus, but when the
> > user don't know exactly what he is searching probably he had released the
> > mouse (ok, it's only a my sensation) so it doesn't activate a tab by
> > error.
>
> This just adds the need to press the mouse button all the time or click
> more often then now. The tab-buttons are huge and hard to miss or hit by
> mistake if just reading the current tab.

but if you are selecting an item that is at the very bottom of the page no 
matter how huge the tabs are, the distance between where you are moving the 
mouse and the tabs is very tiny

Cheers,
Marco Martin

>
> Sven
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