Faster Toolbar Setup & Use

With reference to Hourus' post, as well as Dracula's, maybe a feature inclusion approach everyone could agree on is "user defined options". As TLB evolves, I believe it would be to your marketing advantage to fully support Microsoft toolbar and menuing options, and give this support top billing when you advertise TLB features. Why? Because any employee who convinces his/her boss to buy a menuing system for Windows will want to use it productively right out of the box. Since (almost) everyone in the business and technical communities is compelled to use Microsoft Windows and Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook), they should be able to dive into TLB using their Microsoft toolbar and menuing skills, and remain productive in the eyes of their bosses while they explore TLB's value added options. Many of these options could become user defined wherever they produce TLB behavior which is different, but more productive for some folks, than Microsoft's.

I think you have already followed this approach well already, with only a few rough edges to tweak up in order to match Microsoft's default toolbar/menu behavior.

In summary, I would say: Support Microsoft behavior as your default, and advertise this widely. Over the course of time, let requested features become user defined for both mouse and keyboard.

Recently there was a nice thread about this on Opera beta newsgroup. It's completely unlogical and non-standard if a menu remains open after a mouse-click...

Thanks for the tip. Could you please post a pointer to this thread? I am not acquainted with Opera.

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