You're working on a document in Microsoft Word, and you notice that it started a new page in an inconvenient place, perhaps in the middle of a paragraph that you would rather be all together on one page. Microsoft Word: What's the Best Way to "Push" Text to the Next Page? Mail/New Email To Address () is disqualified because its send and/or return types cannot be handled by the requestor ChildView 0x11b6e4680, gecko child 0x11ba56800, frame. Mail/New Email To Address () is enabled in the services menu and disabled in the context menu, by the standard Services policy. Mail/New Email With Selection () is enabled in the services menu and disabled in the context menu, by the standard Services policy. I tried to run Firefox with the option "-NSDebugServices " getting the following messages: They are there and working correctly if the browser display the Help/Troubleshooting page. Then the items in Firefox/Services menu disappear after I closed and reran the application. If I actuate Firefox's refresh function, Services work properly until I close and reopen Firefox. (Do not be detracted by the feature set of UI of Sunrise this bug 104331 is focused on System Services.) In the screen shot attached, focusing on the presentation of processor services: is a very long thread in which I noted (and occasionally contributed to) discussion of mixed offerings, mixed meanings and mixed understandings of menu commands.Īll things considered I strongly suggest a single top-level item to the Services menu: Users often can not immediately recall the _name of the menu command_ that is associated with what they wish to achive.
In my case (YMMV) I usually know the name of the _application_ that I wish to process something.Ģ. Details Subject: user familiarity with names of applications, versus user uncertainty and poor recollection of names of menu commandsġ. Preferring an application-oriented single top level menu item + multiple subs approach to multiple commands The menu of Services may become ridiculously long if developers tend to waste space ) in which case users' answer to question (2) may be to develop a horror of the Services menu, in which case our efforts will have been wasted. Now look seven years ahead and wonder how many other developers may have said "Opera and Firefox used menu space in this way. Now consider all the other developers of Carbon and other applications who may have been waiting to see how other, more well resourced, groups of developers arrive at solutions. Faced with an increasingly long collection of top-level menu items, where will end users draw the line?Ĭonsider (with respect) the seven year period during which users and developers of Firefox have been anticipating System Services-related improvements.
How enormous will that menu become? Where should developers draw the line?Ģ.
What if all developers of applications for Mac OS X decide to allow or create two or more top level entries for the Services menu. > if all applications waste space in this way, thenġ. It should either:Ī) present what appear to be its two service processors as two items that are sub to a single Opera menuī) present its 'URL opening' service processor with a single unified 'Open URL in' menu, one that should comprise Camino, Safari, OmniWeb, Opera and other installed System Services-enabled browsers. I have a strong sense that the behaviour of Opera is definitely wrong. Details Subject: if all applications waste space in this way, then where do people draw the line? I'll attach my first screen shot before proceeding with other comments. I guess that the trail effect (combining two menu steps into a single step) is an accessibility gem polished by Apple.
clutter (the combination of two crumbs of a particular length can make the Services collection as a whole unnecessarily broad, possibly confusing to newcomers to this aspect of Mac OS X.Įducating myself, I find that the crumbs (and sometimes surprising width) occur only when an application provides no more than one single processor service. accessibility (keyboard-based navigation)Ģ. My first reactions to breadcrumb trails were:ġ. One menu leads to another.Īn less common approach, is to present breadcrumb trails. The most common approach, which appears conventional, is to use sub-menus in the normal way. Details Subject: breadcrumb trails within Alexĭefocusing from the fact that Opera is a browser: focus on all available applications.