Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gnome-panel
Just a cosmetic bug: All of the icons in the upper-right notification
area have menus, but these menus are very inconsistent in their
behavior.
A nice feature of most menus in Ubuntu is that if you click one menu,
then mouse over the header of another one, that menu will open in its
place. This is a great UI for when you miss the correct menu by just a
bit. But in the notification area, you can only mouse from one menu to
another in limited groups, and some other behaviors are inconsistent as
well. Here's what I get:
* You can't mouse from the network notification to any other menu.
* You can mouse between the volume icon and the message icon, but no other
menus from there.
* You can't mouse from the calendar to any other menu. In fact, unlike all
other menus, you can even *click* another menu, and it won't close -- you'll
have two menus open.
* You can mouse between the chat status menu and the power-down menu, but no
other menus from there.
In addition, the highlighting behavior when these menus are clicked is
inconsistent. The network icon never gets highlighted even when its menu
is open. The time and date gets highlighted the moment you mouse over
it, gets highlighted in a _different_ color when you click it to open
the menu, and is highlighted in yet a different color when you open
another menu afterward.
Expected behavior: all the notification icons highlight when their menu
is open (and only when their menu is open), and you can move from one
menu to another by moving your mouse over a different notification icon.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: gnome-panel 1:2.29.92.1-0ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-17.26-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-17-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Mar 27 20:12:22 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 "Lucid Lynx" - Beta amd64 (20100318)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gnome-panel
** Affects: gnome-panel (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug lucid
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menus in notification area have inconsistent behavior
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/549975
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