Hi, everyone.

Please find attached a change set that splits up "cmdGesturesEnabled" into "metaMenuForAll" and "haloForAll". Note that even if disabled, any morph can decide to open the meta menu or the halo on its own. These preferences are rather development tools.

Best,
Marcel
Am 11.05.2018 16:02:37 schrieb Marcel Taeumel <marcel.taeumel at hpi.de>:
Hi Stef,

well, since I tried to explain my thoughts and concerns, I suppose that I do not refuse just by principle. It seems that I have been failing to convey the bigger picture here. For that, I am sorry. I am no native English speaker; please treat any emotion I might transport with my words with care. I try to observe the situation, evaluate it in the context of my experiences, and make suggestions.

I will not add the backdoor you requested for the reasons I explained. I offered you some alternatives so that you can avoid "hacking [your] way into the current design." Sorry for any inconveniences. You brought up a very important topic, for which I am thankful.

Have a nice day!
Marcel
Am 11.05.2018 15:42:11 schrieb Stéphane Rollandin <lecteur at zogotounga.net>:
> First, let me acknowledge that this is kind of a regression. :-)
>
> Now, what is the situation here:
[...]

Ok, this is the master morphic architect view. It is valid, and I
consider you do a good job at this.

Now my view is from the morphic application developer side. I have a
morphic application requiring ctrl+drag, and I can make it work. It is
not even difficult. I just ask for a backdoor so that I don't have to
monkeypatch something as basic as the event handling mechanism.

The way I see it, you refuse by principle; and this amount to
deliberately enforcing a lack of functionality without any regard to the
actual need of actual morphic applications, of which I provided an
example. This I do not understand.


> The bottom line is that you should disable the command gestures via
> "Preferences disable: #cmdGesturesEnabled". I think we should split up
> this preference into "morphicHaloEnabled" and "morphicMetaMenuEnabled".

I know. We already discussed this two years ago:
http://forum.world.st/cmdGesturesEnabled-false-gt-no-halos-td4882669.html

Nothing changed with regard to #cmdGesturesEnabled. I guess it is indeed
time for the split you propose.


> If you have more questions, keep on asking.

Please do not feel offended, but this remark is rather patronizing.

I am not asking anything, I am proposing something. As far as I am
concerned, things can stand as they are, I'll just keep hacking my way
into the current design.

I just thought I had something worthy to propose.


Best,

Stef

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