said deloptes via tde-users: | dep via tde-users wrote: | > In the toolbar there is the view mode button, but if you click on it | > nothing happens. You have to click on the unbelievably small -- I've | > never hit it on the first try -- down triangle that pawns a menu of | > view modes: Icon view, multi-column view, list view, detailed list | > view, and so on. Right clicking on it, as with every other button in | > the toolbar, renders a toolbar menu. So all the button does is provide | > that tiny triangle. | > | > Wouldn't it make more sense if the button itself produced the view | > mode list? It would certainlt be much easier to use. | | click and hold the mouse key over the icon/button and the menu shows up, | but it might be indeed better to show the menu without having to press | and hold. I don't know if it's possible to implement.
I just experimented: click and hold the button down and do nothing else and it never appears, or at least not in the first 90 seconds, after which I got bored and let go. (More easily demonstrated with a trackball, where you can hold the button down all day long without moving the pointer at all.) However, click and hold and move the mouse a little and it shows up instantly. Which strongly suggests that it's a bug, doncha think? Who would ever program that on purpose? What would be the rationale?
As to whether or not it can be fixed -- how could it not be? Registering a mouse click has to be easier to program than a registering mouse click plus moving the mouse around a little. And clicking any other button in the toolbar *does something,* the view mode being the lone exception.