Suggestion Box

This is nitpicky at this point in the release cycle of Haiku, but eventually, the Deskbar arrows should face left when the Deskbar is docked on the right hand side of the screen. Or, there should be some consistency with which side the submenu appears on. Only 'Demos' appears on the same side of the submenu as the arrows....

First off I've never used either BeOS or Haiku (I can't run A2, will try latest nightly this weekend), I just became really interested in Haiku after hearing all the good things about BeOS and the aforementioned. From what I can decipher as an outsider, though, BeOS had double clicking to run apps/open files and folders from the desktop and Tracker, just like Windows and (I assume) OSX. I'm a long experienced Windows user, so double clicking doesn't bother me much. Then I read this article: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/10/double-click-must-die.html

This is pretty spot on, now that I think about it. Double clicking is NOT exactly a user friendly (or developer friendly) function, my parents can attest to that, they still don't seem to understand when to double click or click once. And when you think about it, it's not really their fault. The rule for when to double click or not, is very obscure for newbies, and for some things (such as the system tray) even experienced users can't know which tray icons use double/single click functionality. The act of double clicking itself is VERY unintuitive as well, I remember how awkward it was for me when I started using Windows as a little kid.

My point is, for the sake of user friendlyness and logical GUI design, we should remove double clicking, at least as a default? Maybe even make use of more than 2 mouse buttons so selecting and launching an icon aren't confused, under a single click design?

I thought that it might be an idea for us to have a thread where users can post comments on small things in Haiku that have problems, or could do with improvements. For example, if you've seen spelling mistakes, small things that don't work as they should, or have any suggestions about making the user environment easier to use, they could be posted here. Any thoughts on this?

I think that the first time you download and run an application, Haiku should automatically add it to boot/be/Applications folder so that it automatically shows up in your Leaf Menu/Applications folder so that you can access it more easily.