[Bugs] #1169 NORM: Drop down menus give no indication of their existence, also are too slow to load.

[SugarLabs Bugs]

#1169: Drop down menus give no indication of their existence, also are too slow to
load.
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    Reporter:  wwdillingham                |          Owner:  tomeu                      
        Type:  enhancement                 |         Status:  new                        
    Priority:  Normal                      |      Milestone:  Unspecified by Release Team
   Component:  sugar                       |        Version:  Unspecified                
    Severity:  Major                       |     Resolution:                             
    Keywords:  interface design usability  |   Distribution:  Unspecified                
Status_field:  New                         |  
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Changes (by garycmartin):

 * cc: eben, erikos (added)


Comment:

 A few quick comments/thoughts:

 1) Right clicking will immediately show a full palette

 2) It's been mentioned (Eben) that icons with no primary action (single
 left click), should treat displaying their full palette as their primary
 action, so a single left click would reveal the full palette. There are a
 number of such buttons throughout Sugar and various activities that would
 need to pick up this behaviour.

 3) Showing downward arrows on all icons with secondary palette options...
 Hmmmm. I'm on the fence about this one, there will be little arrows
 appearing all over the place. It would need to be consistently applied
 from a low level within Sugar, so all Activities also correctly inherit
 this behaviour (down arrow for all buttons with secondary palettes). If
 it's not consistent it will make matters worse not better.

 3a) Down arrows are already being used to indicate 'lockable sub-toolbars'
 for the upcoming 0.86 release and the toolbar re-design work. I don't
 think we want to confuse that new toolbar feature with the old existing
 palette behaviours.

 4) Compromise... How about some visual indication inside the primary
 palette, that a secondary (delayed) one exists?

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Ticket URL: <http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/1169#comment:2>
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