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On 2013-01-22 at 22:22:11 [+0100], John Scipione jscipione@xxxxxxxxx wrote: * Note that I use the term LMB to mean primary mouse button and RMB to mean secondary mouse button. Yes, let's keep things simple for now. BTW, I use the mouse or trackpoint with my left hand, but I don't swap the buttons. I don't see how it is a moot point because the action requires you to ...

Am 22.01.2013 21:08, schrieb John Scipione: On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 2:54 AM, pete.goodeve@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: [And in general my whole attraction to Haiku is that it replicates BeOS behaviour, which I always found intuitive and congenial. Haiku has so far done an excellent job of remedying many of BeOS's original deficiencies. Gratuitous fundamental changes in the GUI would not be welcome, though.] ...

I was going to just report this as a bug, when I found out that it happens on only one of my two alpha4 partitions: ShowImage takes a segment violation on mouse cursor over an icon button, when BIconButton::DrawBorder tries to call be_control_look-DrawButtonFrame. BIconButton::DrawBorder is the last function on the traceback. The parameters look OK, and be_control_look is non-null (DrawBorder doesn't check) and seems to work for be_control_flags-Flags(). If we skip that DrawButtonFrame call, it crashes on the next one, when BIconButton::DrawBackground calls be_control_look-DrawButtonBackground. ...

* Note that I use the term LMB to mean primary mouse button and RMB to mean secondary mouse button. On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 3:44 PM, pulkomandy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: To put it bluntly, arguing to change behavior of LMB, RMB, CTRL+ALT on poor discoverability (or even ergonomics) is a moot point. By needing to control two devices (a pointer and a keyboard), CTRL+ALT is advanced, we cannot demand users to use it as the only or primary means. CTRL+ALT is alternative because there are other means to achieve the ...

On 22/01/2013 22:01, Fredrik Holmqvist wrote: I've forked haiku on github now, and I'll work on efi there: Track if you want to see messy work in progress commits ;) You'll want to create an efi branch in there to keep master clean. François. ...

2013/1/20 Axel Dörfler axeld@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Am 19/01/2013 10:43, schrieb Fredrik Holmqvist: 2013/1/16 François Revol revol@xxxxxxx: On 16/01/2013 22:23, Axel Dörfler wrote: I'm not sure if writing a file system driver is the best starting, point, however, as it's a completely optional that doesn't gain you that much (you still need some place to put the driver to, I would guess ...