An irritating feature

[DaveS]

Now that I have become a 'paying customer'  , I feel that I can have a little whinge about an annoying feature of PI's GUI.

When 'shortcuts' are shown in the left-hand margin, their function 'opens' as soon as the mouse icon touches them. When working on the desk top, it is very easy to let the mouse icon stray into the margin, and thus open up applications when not wanted. This becomes quite annoying after the first few times.

To overcome this, I have closed down all of the margin icons, and have resorted to opening applications from the 'tool bar' menus.

If there was an option whereby you coluld 'click' on the icons in the margin in order for them to open the relevant application, it would allow the convenience of having the 'shortcuts' for the frequently used applications showing in the desktop margin, but without having them act like 'pop-ups', everytime the mouse touches them.

I gave a demo of PI basics at an astro-imagers club meeting last night, and those present, saw how irritating this feature can be.

I guess there will be many people that like it the way it is, but if we could have an option, whereby we could choose to 'click' on the short-cut to open the application if preferred, then it would be great. 8)

Dave

[Philip de Louraille]

You might want to post these suggestions to the "Wish List" or "Bug Reports" sections of the forums as well.
Welcome aboard!

[Harry page]

Hi

Go to preferances/ style sheet  and deselect hoverable autohide window selectors and then global apply ( blue circle ) and then you will have your wish


Harry

[Ginge]

Nice! I didn't know that. 
Thanx!

[DaveS]

Hey!!, the 'team' are already way ahead of me 

Now if only there had been some documentaion relating to that  . I know, now you are going to tell me that there is 

Nice one Harry, I can now be 'at peace' with PI, at least for the time being  8)

Dave

[Philip de Louraille]

Well! That is a nice feature. Thanks Harry for pointing to it.

[Nocturnal]

Yeah, I complained loudly and frequently about that a long time ago and the option was added. Now to get the default behavior to be 'click to open'

[DaveS]

Now to get the default behavior to be 'click to open'

I would hazard a guess, that it would be the most popular option, and a lot less frustrating to newcomers to PI.

Dave

[Niall Saunders]

Ahhh, but I now want the Console Window to be PERMANENTLY DISPLAYED (living, as it does, on an auxuiliary monitor at the left of the main monitor). So, I had to learn exactly which combination of options 'I' needed for this to be 'my' default.

I think the current 'default' at least shows new users that there is actually a console window in the first place. And, once they get to know what it is, either the new documentation will guide them on how alternative modes of operation can be configured, or they can always ask......