Re: !Google Toolbar Request

On 16 Aug 2005 as I do recall,
Mark Fraser (News) wrote:

> In article <06059f9a4d.harriet@xxxxxxxxxx>,
> Harriet Bazley <bazley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

> > Seems to work - although I had a nasty moment when it repeatedly claimed
> > that www.google.co.uk didn't exist! However, after trying the French
> > site everything seemed to have cleared up.
>
> What site was your browser trying to get to? I did have a problem with it
> trying to find www.googleco.uk or something similar, but that seemed to
> sort itself out here.

Well, it hasn't done it again, so it's hard to say.... Would it be
possible to make the relevant display icon a little longer? Since it
only shows the right-hand end of the string, depending on your desktop
font you can lose about half the display!


>
> I have created another version with the complete list of all Google local
> domains, but the menu only works correctly if I scroll down it, if I move
> down a screen at a time it doesn't recognise that I've selected an item.

I'm not sure I understand - this sounds like normal menu behaviour, i.e.
you use the scrollbar to scroll the menu. Are you expecting it to
move up of its own accord when you approach the bottom of the screen?

In any case, in practical terms almost any menu that is taller than the
entire screen is *too long* from a user interface point of view. :-(
(The only semi-valid exception to this I can think of is font menus -
and a font menu that extends off the bottom of the screen is not very
usable in practice.)

> Not sure I need all domains on the list, but not sure which ones to include
> and which to not.
>
Limit it to the subset of a dozen or so countries actually containing
RISC OS users? :-)

(Mainly Benelux, Germany and the Commonwealth, so far as I can tell....)

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