customizing LQ behavior
 

What would be the implications of having the ability to tailor LQ logic to individual work habits?

Example: I typically start with "Latest Posts" and skim until I see something where I might be able to help. After posting something, it would be nice to have the system automatically return me to where I was.

The general capability that would make sense would be a setting that tells the system where to send you after you enter a post.

That would presume that after answering the post you DID want to go back to where you were. Maybe at that point you would want to go somewhere else. It sounds dangerously close to MS-like behavior to me: do things for the user "automatically," whether they want to or not. And how hard is it just to click latest posts again?

The only problem I can see with that is the inadequacy of the current tags and titling. It's fine if you only want to see threads marked as "Urgent" but otherwise you could be bounced around a lo of threads that don't relate to what you want. It would also mean that you could miss out on a lot of threads.

If this could have things tagged by yourself - so in preferences, if you put debian+server+squid, for example, it may be more useful.

My idea was that you would be able to configure it the way you wanted---as it stands now, it assumes I want to go back to the thread---which is almost never what I want.

My normal routine is to go back to "Latest Posts", but without refreshing. This can take several keystrokes and maybe 3-5 seconds. If it would automatically go there after posting it would save a lot of time.

Another solution would be the duplication of the Quick Links menu at the bottom of the screen or immediately below the area where you return after posting. This would be good after posting to a longer thread.

5 button mouse (scroll wheel) and firefox.... Middle click post, get the post in a new tab... I open up several all at once. I'm lost as to what feature is missing unless you are on an old system...

You CAN however have a custom bar on the left when you are doing some blog stuff.... I have a button for "random blog" because that option tends to disappear a lot while navigating the blogs.

I see. If you could configure it the way you wanted that might be useful. :cool:

I AM an old system......;)

Nice tip about the middle button opening a link in a new tab.

That is not quite the answer, however. Very quickly I will have a whole bunch of tabs that I need to close.

(What on earth is a "5-button mouse"?)

5-button mouse has two buttons on the side that you can usually program.

I use the tab method, myself. That opens multiple threads while leaving the "latest threads" page open. If you're using firefox, there's a extension to add a "close tab" to the context menu, so you just right click and select close tab. Takes a grand total of about 0.5 seconds. :p

Then just renew the latest threads page, which even an automatic function would have to do anyway. I have a bookmark on the toolbar with latest threads (http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi....php?do=getnew), so I just have to click that to have the latest threads page refreshed (reloading won't work, that will just reload the same "latest" threads that are already shown).

Actually, a std. wheel mouse is considered a "5-button" mouse, w/ the wheel getting assigned 3 buttons: middle click, scroll up, & scroll down. A wheel mouse w/ 2 side buttons, is seen & programmed as a minimum of 7 buttons. Sometimes they have to be put into the X config. file w/ more than 7, but then some of extra buttons are blank placeholders. Don't ask me why, it's beyond my memory & expertise; I just remember what I have seen done & work in the past.

Oh, okay - I thought the ones with the two buttons on the side were considered 5-button.

I think it would be cool to have 3 wheels, one on each of the three fingers that were also clickable just like the middle one. you could program the wheels for different functions -- would probably be really useful in gaming. I'm surprised no one has done that yet - maybe I should get a patent quick before MS steals the idea. :p

Years ago, I had a 2 wheel + 3 button track ball, the wheels weren't clickable & it only had Win drivers.

I currently have a 2 wheel + 4? (can't lay my hands on it right now) button mouse. Only one wheel clicks & it doesn't work in XP. It's also PS2, while I'm using a USB KVM. Worse, we (HLUG) can't seem to set up my Xorg config. file to use the 2nd wheel.

The "obvious" thing to do w/ the 2nd wheel is horizontal scrolling, & you're right -- there must be something cool to do w/ a 3rd wheel. I'm just not sure that that would would be worth the lessened ease of clicking.

Since this has morphed into reminiscing about our favorite rodents, may I assume that my original idea is doomed??...;)

MY first mouse had ONE button (Mac 128, ca. 1986)

This isn't something we plan to implement at this time.

--jeremy

Don't forget that middle-clicking on a tab will close it too :)