I've seen those small triangles. They are a pain in the neck to put the mouse on. We certainly won't do that.
FWIW, the triangle I'm talking about is part of the pull-down menu label. There is no need to put the mouse on the triangle itself - just as now, the mouse works anywhere on the label ("State") or the triangle - that is, anywhere on the "button". I would not mind adding a V to the text in that button. That's all I meant (V or triangle or some other indication). Another (alternative) thing that would help recognition would be to change the label to specifically say that it is a menu - for example, "State Menu" or "Choose Action" (or choose whatever), instead of just "State". The State button is not really a pulldown list, so the drawback I mentioned doesn't really apply to it. The problem with real pulldown lists is that the current choice appears as the current label of the list. Instead of seeing a label that indicates that there is a menu there, you see only the name of the current choice (or state), plus, perhaps, a triangle - without the triangle, the menu just looks like a field name (label). In our case, State looks like a button, so it won't be mistaken for simple text. But it can be mistaken for an action button, as opposed to a menu. Calling it "State Menu" or "Choose Action" would mitigate that problem, as would adding an arrow (V). However, that is not what I have seen in browsers. I just looked at one free browser. It has a big leftward arrow, with a triangle next to it. Those are two different mouse-selection areas with different meanings. That is not what I meant, in any case - I'm not familiar with that. I too hate tiny mouseable areas. BTW, I don't see a good solution for this, but I notice a similar problem (tiny mouse area) when I try to enlarge a frame downward by dragging with the mouse. There are so many mouse-sensitive areas in the mode-line now that I often end up hitting one, instead of dragging the frame border. You can't have everything, I guess. _______________________________________________ emacs-pretest-bug mailing list emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-pretest-bug