Re: [gopher] Overbite: should the default for clicks be inline view?
> > Yes. What I was considering doing is making the selector do the open-in-line
> > also, and only have the icon switch to the new document.
>
> Okay. Well here's my take on that....
>
> I kind of expect, that when I click on a link, it open's a new page, for
> lack of a better term (takes me to the doc, next menu/page, image, or
> downloads the binfile).
>
> If I see a plus sign, I rather expect it to *expand*, on that page,
> whatever it is that the selector (link) points to.
I think I didn't communicate this clearly. There are three parts to an
Overbite menu entry: the + sign (on supported item types), the menu icon
(document, folder, etc.), and the selector display string. Currently,
if you click the icon or the display string, the browser goes to that
document, and the inline expansion occurs when you click +.
The proposals are:
- Leave it alone
- Clicking on the + or the display string inserts the document inline, and
clicking the menu item icon goes to that document.
- Clicking on the + or the *icon* inserts the document inline, and clicking
the display string goes to the document.
The reason I was thinking of altering this is to try to emphasize the
hierarchicality of gopher menus more by more heavily leveraging inline
view unless people find this unacceptably distracting.
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