thinker Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Please move one choice away from the other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Why not simply set the toolbar button (the red X) to your preferred choice by right clicking and choosing one of the options?Then it will maintain that setting until you change it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinker Posted January 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Oh thanks. That brings another quirk into the surface.It deleted the selected file just by rick clicking and selecting a new option.Yes, all those are not bugs but they are quirks of design in my opinion that make it irritating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 It deleted the selected file just by rick clicking and selecting a new option.So exactly as anyone would be expected to do then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinker Posted January 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 It deleted the selected file just by rick clicking and selecting a new option.So exactly as anyone would be expected to do then.Absolutely not. This is not a common feature. How many programs do you know that you right click a button, you select an option that is persistent for the future of that button being single clicked and then that option is not just selected but also executed?Don't use bias, I know it's not an expected behavior. I've been using computers for 25 years and I've gone through various UIs.edit: Actually I'll challenge you to find me popular applications that do the same: Right click on a button that does something, select something that will be what the button does in the future persistently and not only that, it also automatically clicks the button after that option is selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Maybe the persistence is not that prevalent but a context menu selection from just about ANY button or menu item WILL perform the action selected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinker Posted January 10, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 Whatever. I won't spend more time on this. I hope a dev sees how unintuitive it is.And on the first problem as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreasvb Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 I'm with thinker, at least on the context menu behaviour.It's like a radio button, even shows the selected state. it just shows which option it should use but not perform it when you select it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted January 10, 2013 Report Share Posted January 10, 2013 If it was a radio button then I would agree, however it is NOT a radio button array, it is a context menu dialogue which SHOULD and DOES perform the function when the entry is clicked, the fact that it persists is very useful my only gripe is that the 'tooltip' doesn't display it's current state. Just like the labels dialog or the jobs list context menu, except the the labels dialog works like a checkbox array. Every graphics editor toolbox works the same way, the last options used for a tool button become the default for the next time you use the same tool. It's not like the developers are breaking new ground or introduced a radical new concept. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreasvb Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 It is a radio button array, it even got the icon for it, as the check mark on the move to trash-option.Why would you use that option if it changes the default & performs the action each time you use it, instead of the regular Remove And-context menu.And if you just want to change the default and not remove anything? (Yes, you can change gui.default_del_action, but it's easier directly from the GUI and would make more sense to not do any actions, IMHO). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 and would make more sense to not do any actions,That would be the natural behaviour of a option dialogue that was accessed from a settings control panel but options in a context menu are applied as and when they are selected.These are NOT operational UIs that have been created especially for uTorrent, they are built on standard Windows dialogue 'frameworks', the labels (text), the colours and the target object (the setting) may change but the fundamental operation and behaviour of dialogues is pre-determined by the OS version that the application is running on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andreasvb Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 It's still a radio array, so it makes less sense that it changes the default if you just want to delete it.As it's not a normal context menu, it's to choose what the button should do, following would make most sense:Right click: set the action.Left click: perform the action.Menu items that are options may use bullets and checkmarks. Commands may not.Windows User Experience Interaction Guidelines: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa511502.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ciaobaby Posted January 11, 2013 Report Share Posted January 11, 2013 And the relevance of menu item handling to setting options on a toolbar object is?The "search" toolbar button does the same RC -> select the option also sends the command.The ONLY thing different from dozens of other toolbar buttons in many other applications is that the "Remove" button is not in the current vogue of a "split" look button (like the search button), but the functionality is identical. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thinker Posted January 14, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 You don't get it. It's not intuitive.And stop being a fanboy. I'm trying to help here. I have more important things to do than being treated with hipster elitist behavior when trying to help. Bye. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beasly Posted January 14, 2013 Report Share Posted January 14, 2013 And the relevance of menu item handling to setting options on a toolbar object is?Way too argumentative in most of your posts.Help the person that needs it and move on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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