[dev] Re: [patch] horde/templates/javascript/tree.js

[Peter Arien]

Rick

Rick Emery wrote:
> Quoting Marc Jauvin <marc at r4l.com>:
>> What about this way of doing it (the pointer will change to an 
>> up/down arrow indicating the "expansion" of the menu...

No good, because that's an 'after the fact' visual clue. You still
have to move your mouse over the label to know what will happen.

> I *really* missed clicking on the labels to expand them, and am glad to 
> see it return. I'm not happy, though, with the "overloaded" 
 > functionality; by which I mean that some labels are headers that
 > expand, and some are links to applications (which also expand, but you
 > can't click on them to make it happen).

Possible solution (that takes a little more space on screen):
http://www.arien.be/overloaded.png

'right arrow' means you go to the application, 'down arrow' means
the label behaves like the + sign (and if possible also the icon?)
to the left.

You could of course leave out all the arrows where there is
no overloading of 'click-the-label', leaving only the 'right
arrow' where clicking on the + sign (and the icon?) expands the
menu, and clicking the label shows the app.

Too much coffee?

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Peter

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