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From: steve@miranova.com (Steven L. Baur)
Subject: Re: `mouse-face' under XEmacs
Date: 17 Nov 1995 09:53:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2buqbdt6i.fsf@diana.miranova.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: arius@immd2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de's message of 17 Nov 1995 03:32:38 -0800

>>>>> "Peter" == Peter Arius <arius@immd2.informatik.uni-erlangen.de> writes:

    Peter> 2.) If group/article selection is implemented such, that
    Peter> the user may click anywhere on the line to select an entry,
    Peter> but that only a smaller part of the line is highlighted,
    Peter> when the mouse moves over it, I'd consider this as an
    Peter> inconsistent user interface.

This is how I observe it behaving.

    Peter> IMHO highlighting means "click
    Peter> here to select", and it should precisely indicate the
    Peter> places where one can click.

Peter is right.  Highlighting on a subset of the line is only a winner
if that's the only place where a mouse click is meaningful.

-- 
steve@miranova.com baur


  reply	other threads:[~1995-11-17 17:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1995-11-17  1:23 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1995-11-17  2:52 ` Per Abrahamsen
1995-11-17  3:59   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1995-11-17  4:58     ` Steven L. Baur
1995-11-17 11:32     ` Peter Arius
1995-11-17 17:53       ` Steven L. Baur [this message]
1995-11-19  7:43         ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1995-11-22  0:31           ` Felix Lee
1995-11-23 12:37             ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1995-11-24 19:22               ` Steven L. Baur
1995-11-24 20:30                 ` William Perry
1995-11-26 14:28                 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1995-11-17  3:06 ` Steven L. Baur
1995-11-17  3:17   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1995-11-17  3:37     ` William Perry
1995-11-17  3:30 ` William Perry
1995-11-17  4:10 ` Steven L. Baur

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