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Author Topic: Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?  (Read 1509 times)

Mastiff

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Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?
« on: December 11, 2006, 04:08:37 pm »
Even if there's room for everything, I need to scroll either at the top, at the bottom or both to get to all right click commands (at least when showing right click recent commands, which I always do). Is this necessary when there's room for all commands in view at the same time?
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Re: Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?
« Reply #1 on: December 11, 2006, 04:29:52 pm »
Annoys me too.  :(
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Re: Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?
« Reply #2 on: December 11, 2006, 04:44:40 pm »
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Re: Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?
« Reply #3 on: December 11, 2006, 06:34:23 pm »
Menus are capped at some percentage of the screen height. (around 50%)

It's a gray area, but we think a scrolling menu is probably better than one that takes over the whole screen.
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Re: Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?
« Reply #4 on: December 11, 2006, 06:42:57 pm »
Quote from: Matt on December 11, 2006, 06:34:23 pm
Menus are capped at some percentage of the screen height. (around 50%)

It's a gray area, but we think a scrolling menu is probably better than one that takes over the whole screen.

I like it capped.
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Re: Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?
« Reply #5 on: December 12, 2006, 01:32:33 am »
Well, I disagree. If there's room I want the full menu, please!
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Re: Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?
« Reply #6 on: December 12, 2006, 02:17:15 am »
I find this quite annoying as well. Every time you go to click on something in the menu, it scrolls out of reach of the cursor and you have to move the mouse again. This gets even more annoying when you're doing repetitive tasks. It's harder to hit a moving target.

There's no need for this behaviour, they're not permanent, you click on the command and poof, the menu's gone.
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Re: Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?
« Reply #7 on: December 12, 2006, 02:51:58 am »
Can anyone post a pic ? ..maybe you might get more support ;)

I've noticed a trend recently with other software in favour for scrolling menus that don't take up the entire screen.
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Re: Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?
« Reply #8 on: December 12, 2006, 07:40:50 am »
I believe this is what they are referring to. Notice there's a lot more screen real estate without needing the displayed menu to scroll with arrows at the top and bottom of the menu.
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Re: Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?
« Reply #9 on: December 12, 2006, 01:10:06 pm »
If they could get favorites to behave like that, i would be happier.
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Re: Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?
« Reply #10 on: December 12, 2006, 01:51:13 pm »
Quote from: hit_ny on December 12, 2006, 01:10:06 pm
If they could get favorites to behave like that, i would be happier.
mine do behave like that.

I quite like the capped menus, though, I do think they would benefit from a bit space, 75% perhaps?

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Re: Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?
« Reply #11 on: December 12, 2006, 02:37:02 pm »
Was referring more to subdirectories in favourites, to be able to nest things.
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Re: Why aren't all options showed at once with right click when there's room?
« Reply #12 on: December 12, 2006, 03:42:28 pm »
Quote from: hit_ny on December 12, 2006, 02:37:02 pm
Was referring more to subdirectories in favourites, to be able to nest things.
Ah yes, slightly off-topic, but I whole-heartedly agree with you :)
If anyone else does, see this thread...
http://yabb.jriver.com/interact/index.php?topic=34471.0

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