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Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by simonbrown » Fri, Apr 13, 2012, 2:01 AM UTC

lwat wrote: post #93

jawns wrote: post #35

Here's how I would improve this: The lightbox that opens up asks, "Looking for the GitHub logo?" But it doesn't let you answer no. It just presumes that your answer is yes, and supplies you with what it thinks you actually want (or, more cynically, what it wants you to want). I would suggest adding a "No thanks -- just let me right-click" link at the bottom. That link would close the lightbox and prevent it from reop…

canv.as does the fancy right-click menu too, and at the bottom there's a note saying 'Use Shift + Right click for the normal right click menu'

Unfortunately for this case, Shift+RC takes as much effort as Ctrl+RC and replaces the "open in new window" shortcut.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by tedunangst » Fri, Apr 13, 2012, 3:03 AM UTC

simonbrown wrote: post #120

tedunangst wrote: post #111

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That works in X, but I've never seen that work in Windows. And when I have used it, the timing was only about 9/10; the other times I get a left-right click combo, or a right-middle combo, or something else equally disastrous considering how the X clipboard works.

I use Windows 7 and it works for me.

So do I. I just tried it. I get a left and a right click. So the menu shows up for a little while, then it follows the link anyway. Wherever the Emulate3Buttons setting is in Windows, it's not on for me. I open new tabs by right clicking then left clicking for a reason, and it's not because I don't know about the dozen other ways to open a tab.

I'm surprised nobody's suggested "hit tab until the link is highlighted, then hit the menu key" yet. There's another great workaround.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by lwat » Fri, Apr 13, 2012, 3:07 AM UTC

simonbrown wrote: post #121

lwat wrote: post #93

Earlier quoted context omitted.

canv.as does the fancy right-click menu too, and at the bottom there's a note saying 'Use Shift + Right click for the normal right click menu'

Unfortunately for this case, Shift+RC takes as much effort as Ctrl+RC and replaces the "open in new window" shortcut.

There's more in the right-click menu than just 'open in new window'

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by eslachance » Fri, Apr 13, 2012, 3:48 AM UTC

dsl wrote: post #103

psychotik wrote: post #99

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Also A/B test the pop-over dialog to see what works best.

and a multivariate engine to test different font face/wording combinations for logo download conversion tracking.

Can someone get on crunching numbers so I can get a pie chart on how many users disabled the right-click, how many people never right-clicked (hey, maybe a tutorial-like tooltip bubble that says "Right-click me!" ?), trends in right-click usage over time and separated by geo localisation? That should be trivial to do, I'm sure.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by Centigonal » Fri, Apr 13, 2012, 3:52 AM UTC

dsl wrote: post #103

psychotik wrote: post #99

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Also A/B test the pop-over dialog to see what works best.

and a multivariate engine to test different font face/wording combinations for logo download conversion tracking.

What Github needs is a virtual octocat assistant that helps you with common tasks.

"It looks like you're looking for Github brand image resources. - Have you tried right-clicking on the Github logo?"

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 13, 2012, 4:12 AM UTC

danso wrote: post #25

run4yourlives wrote: post #17

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...which moving your mouse away from the logo still allows you to access. Personally, I think it's a great little addition to a website.

Yeah. I guess the one thing it could conceivably block is the ability to tell where that specific logo file is being served from...but the niche group of users who need to know that most likely would use inspector-tools to find it. I was shocked when my roommate told me that in 8 years of owning a Mac (and using a PC from time to time), she had been completely unaware that there was such a thing as a "right-click" I…

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Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by bradleyjg » Fri, Apr 13, 2012, 4:12 AM UTC

danso wrote: post #25

run4yourlives wrote: post #17

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...which moving your mouse away from the logo still allows you to access. Personally, I think it's a great little addition to a website.

Yeah. I guess the one thing it could conceivably block is the ability to tell where that specific logo file is being served from...but the niche group of users who need to know that most likely would use inspector-tools to find it. I was shocked when my roommate told me that in 8 years of owning a Mac (and using a PC from time to time), she had been completely unaware that there was such a thing as a "right-click" I…

I use right click, slight move the right, left click to go back. A lot quicker than mousing all the way up to the back button, and the four and five button mice never seemed to have caught on.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 13, 2012, 4:12 AM UTC

danso wrote: post #25

run4yourlives wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

...which moving your mouse away from the logo still allows you to access. Personally, I think it's a great little addition to a website.

Yeah. I guess the one thing it could conceivably block is the ability to tell where that specific logo file is being served from...but the niche group of users who need to know that most likely would use inspector-tools to find it. I was shocked when my roommate told me that in 8 years of owning a Mac (and using a PC from time to time), she had been completely unaware that there was such a thing as a "right-click" I…

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Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by nileshtrivedi » Fri, Apr 13, 2012, 4:38 AM UTC

tedunangst wrote: post #110

colonel_panic wrote: post #71

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Am I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?

You and me both. Apparently I'm expected to go out and buy a new laptop with a middle mouse button so I can open new tabs properly.

Or you can do a Ctrl + click to open a link in a new tab.

Re: Try right clicking GitHub's logo

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Post by nileshtrivedi » Fri, Apr 13, 2012, 4:42 AM UTC

colonel_panic wrote: post #71

javery wrote: post #61

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You must be a program manager - you have taken a simple and easy solution and added a ton of complexity for a problem 1% or less of people will encounter.

Am I really in a <1% minority of people who right click site logos to open the main page in a new tab and start a separate browsing path?

The usual right-click menu works fine (using FF on linux).