tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29399536.post4475639180565294563..comments2024-02-10T03:17:37.879-05:00Comments on Dave Richards - City of Largo Work Blog: Clicking And OpenOfficeDave Richardshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06403055794363134691noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29399536.post-22888454588597315782007-02-15T18:22:00.000-05:002007-02-15T18:22:00.000-05:00Clicking at the least should be a trivial problem ...Clicking at the least should be a trivial problem to fix... I believe that a double-click consists of firing a single-click and then a double-click event since computers can't read one's mind... in that case, the single-click event should launch it, and the double-click event should do nothing.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29399536.post-67802725196187389552007-02-15T05:24:00.000-05:002007-02-15T05:24:00.000-05:00Wait, so every time you start Evolution a bunch of...Wait, so every time you start Evolution a bunch of notifications pop up telling you that it's starting up and informing you of your printer? That's pretty horrible.<BR/><BR/>One of the things I find annoying about Windows is the useless popups that appear all the time. Notifications should be used sparingly, only when there is some kind of response needed. <BR/><BR/>Raymond Chen had a good article on his blog about use of notifications: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/11/01/922449.aspx<BR/><BR/>It sounds like there are possibly problems with the startup notification mechanism, but wouldn't it be more sensible to fix that instead of abusing popup notifications? Plus it seems absurd to me to display popups every time you start Evolution telling you what your printer is.Simon Howardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00547759817975257387noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29399536.post-37251951139787965052007-02-14T17:03:00.000-05:002007-02-14T17:03:00.000-05:00The users generally couldn't care less about the n...The users generally couldn't care less about the names or network locations of the printers. What is more important is where the damned thing is. I've seen often a map implemented for this.<BR/><BR/>Generally it takes only seconds to draw a rough map of the premises, add couple nice printer images and lines of text. The user has to just point and click where they want to print to. Very very convenient for the end user when done properly.<BR/><BR/>You can also mark the locations on the desktops on the ldap you are using. When you mark the rough location of the desktop it is very easy to map the default printer to the closest/best one and show it visually to the user. (Roaming people must usually still find their location from the system.. But then again all the information about all the sites and their printers will be available to them.)<BR/><BR/>I think the Windows based Novell stuff has that stuff by default. I've seen it added on Windows/ad environments by using 3rd party solutions.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29399536.post-91709830846820719532007-02-14T16:26:00.000-05:002007-02-14T16:26:00.000-05:00I agree with the double click/single click problem...I agree with the double click/single click problem. There's no logic behind the choice. <BR/><BR/>My personnal solution is to activate single click everywhere ! Double click doesn't exist anymore ! And to select something, I just draw a square around it.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29399536.post-13852193262943935142007-02-14T16:24:00.000-05:002007-02-14T16:24:00.000-05:00Maemo (the distro used on Nokia 770 and N800 table...Maemo (the distro used on Nokia 770 and N800 tablets) also shows a small notification message ("$ProgramName - loading") when you start an application.<BR/><BR/>Why is a third of your blog post shown as dingbats?Marius Gedminashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15155998626202067226noreply@blogger.com