[dev] Menus with icons...

[Eric Rostetter]

Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Eric Rostetter <eric.rostetter at physics.utexas.edu>:
> 
> > * Not very intuitive for new users.
> > * Once you make the submenu appear, there seems to be no way to make
> > it disappear without selecting something?
> 
> I agree, though it's a pretty common concept these days (start menu, foot
> menu, kde menu, etc.)

Would help if the word "menu" appeared in the label, mouse over, etc.

> once users know it's there.

But I'm worried about how they get to know it is there.

> Maybe having it do the
> initial expand on mouseover would help?

Actually just a mouse over that said what it did (tool-tip or whatever
you want to call that) rather than expanding it.  I think even microsoft's
start menu does this by default....

> And I agree you should be able to
> get it to go away without clicking a link somehow.

Yes, very much so.
 
> -chuck

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Eric Rostetter
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The University of Texas at Austin

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