Idea #5557: Center right-click context menu under mouse instead of two the right.

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Written by deadowl the 24 Mar 08 at 04:23. Category: System.
Related to: Nothing/Others. Status: New

Description

Users almost always move the mouse toward
the center of a menu before continuing. This is a strategy in menu browsing,
and eliminating the need for it could subconsciously make the interface feel
more usable. Why not center menus under the mouse rather than the traditional
method of drawing it right of the mouse? The one exception for this of
course, would be if centering a menu under a mouse would interfere with the
visibility of the menu.

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deadowl wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 04:25

NoOOOO!!! I accidentally wrote 'two' instead of 'to.'

dominik.mayer wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 17:25

-1 because you'd have to move the mouse if you accidentally clicked on the right button.

deadowl wrote on the 24 Mar 08 at 21:00

Well, the general idea was not to have the menu centered directly under the mouse, only the top edge.

goodevilgenius wrote on the 27 Mar 08 at 03:30

Hmm, it seems Fluxbox already does this.
Maybe Ubuntu should just switch from Gnome to Fluxbox as the default WM.

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