Go Up Strip is half useless with less popular OS configuration
Posted: 17.06.2018, 13:51
Under the
Tools > Settings > View > Go Up Strip
the user can choose if a thin strip should appear if FC, that when clicked makes the active tab in active panel go up one level. That strip appears both left and right edge of the FC- so that the user can just move pointer to the side and click it without even looking at it when having FC in a maximized mode, right? Just another quick way to go up, when your mouse does not have that extra button
But what happens if the user sets up Windows Taskbar in a vertical way- on the edge of the screen? One of those strips becomes pretty much useless, as the user needs to aim at it first, before clicking it, navigating the pointer between the edge of FC panel and the edge of Taskbar. Even if it is 10 pixels wide it is still hard to click it- and if you multiple that by 2, then you loose 20 pixels of precious horizontal space
So what I am proposing in order to deal with this issue, is to add another option for that Go Up Strip- a possibility of displaying [both of them] at the very bottom of the FC. Then of course the color option [background start and background stop] should also have new option added to them- the direction in which it will go [vertical like it is now or horizontal like it could or should be when those strips will be placed at the bottom of FC]
Tools > Settings > View > Go Up Strip
the user can choose if a thin strip should appear if FC, that when clicked makes the active tab in active panel go up one level. That strip appears both left and right edge of the FC- so that the user can just move pointer to the side and click it without even looking at it when having FC in a maximized mode, right? Just another quick way to go up, when your mouse does not have that extra button
But what happens if the user sets up Windows Taskbar in a vertical way- on the edge of the screen? One of those strips becomes pretty much useless, as the user needs to aim at it first, before clicking it, navigating the pointer between the edge of FC panel and the edge of Taskbar. Even if it is 10 pixels wide it is still hard to click it- and if you multiple that by 2, then you loose 20 pixels of precious horizontal space
So what I am proposing in order to deal with this issue, is to add another option for that Go Up Strip- a possibility of displaying [both of them] at the very bottom of the FC. Then of course the color option [background start and background stop] should also have new option added to them- the direction in which it will go [vertical like it is now or horizontal like it could or should be when those strips will be placed at the bottom of FC]