Dunno what its called..but what the app that enables a popup menu anywhere your mouse pointer is at, instead of just having the menu across the top?

EDIT: Partial answer thanks to asiegel on #morphos .. for the Ambient "popup menu anywhere" on the desktop.. Ambient RMB --> Settings --> Ambient MUI --> Menus, then select "Above Mouse Pointer"

[ Edited by TheMagicM 24.05.2015 - 09:34 ]

I believe what you're after is Crabum

Negative.

I wouldn't go to MUI settings, but System settings (MorphOS Preferences) and IControl settings. There from the "Screens and Desktop" tab either menus always opening under mouse pointer with "Open menus under mousepointer" or depending your mouse position (which I like) "Open menus under mouse pointer outside screen titlebar area".

Yes.. My edit has that tidbit of info.

@jPV

That is exactly what was recommended to TheMagicM on #morphos (iControl) :)

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It only mentions a MUI setting which jPV referred to as a subpar solution.

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Exactly, I gave him a "full solution" instead of his edited "partial solution" :) IControl setting works with all kinds of programs, not just with Ambient/MUI programs. And with that IControl setting, it isn't needed to tune the MUI settings at all (that mentioned "Above Mouse Pointer" is pretty ugly option too, IMHO. I'd revert it back to system menus.).

Ok.. I got it the way I like it now..

Ambient MUI --> Menus --> Like System menus and along with jPV's solution.. all is well. Very cool stuff.

Thanks to both of you!

You'd better check the other options with a thought in IControl too ;) I think it's the most important prefs on MorphOS for the usability.

It seems that too many people just assume that you need some kind of separate patches for all the functionality (been advicing many people lately about that), and they even have installed old/3rd party stuff for the things which are already built-in in MorphOS since ages if you'd just look into the prefs. I guess bad manners from AmigaOS are in deep in this regard...

In the worst case people just complain that they don't like how the MorphOS works, of course by using it in its default settings without even having a look at the options :)


[ Edited by jPV 26.05.2015 - 09:20 ]

It would be great to have an article in the Library that would explain the most common IControl options.

Doesn't pressing "help" key in IControl prefs work?

I think that the default settings of the iso could be changed a bit.
My suggestion:
- Clara skin instead of Ferox
- allow moving windows out of screen except ctrl is pressed
- open menus under mousepointer
- a preset panel with some entries alreadsy (Odyssey, Showgirls, APD, Multiview, Flacapella, Transfer, Jalapeno,..) to help getting started with panels

I think that's what most users change anyway (except the Clara skin, which _I_think is much more clean and lean and, hence, better suited as default skin)

> APD

APD?

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According to me, application menus should always pop on the title bar and not under the mouse pointer. To tell you the truth, I simply don't understand the point of having all the menus being opened under the mouse; only contextual menus should.

So, the default settings are just perfect to me. ;)

Btw, a default panel with icons for the main pre-installed softwares could be nice for the beginners.

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With older Version of MorphOS this was kind of a problem due the way Ambient stored path names.

However, I changed that with 3.6 (I think), so in theory it should be easy to include a panel with owb, regtool and others by default now, if the updater ensures not to overwrite the panel on harddrive.

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Not a new political party or such, but +F
And replace A with V.

[ Editiert durch Zylesea 26.05.2015 - 18:38 ]