On 8/10/07, Jesse Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >   So the ideal solution is not to have title bar for submenu.
> >   And users can just grab the top-level menu item and tear it down.
> >   Using your screenshot as example,
> >   if they hold mouse on 'View' menu item and drag it out of menu bar,
> >   it becomes tear-down submenu.
>
> At first, I thought this seemed like a good idea. However, how do you
> "cancel" a selection? In OS X, you can release outside a menu to
> dismiss the window. Doing that under this model will cause whatever
> menu item you clicked on to turn into a floating menu.

  Well, on mac, you can also click on top-level menu item again to cancel it.
  Actually it never occurs to me to cancel menu by moving mouse out of it,
  though it is a logistic thing as canceling action on button.

  Yen-Ju

>
> >> a) not doing the "first item drops the menu down" hack and making all
> >> the menus line up
> >> or
> >> b) making all the submenus offset by a few pixels.
> >>
> >
> >   O.K. So this one is a consistency issue while (a) is current
> > behavior.
> >
> >   Both of the issues above have technical difficulties, I believe.
> >   I think they all fall into the same situation as using GNUstep theme
> >   for window title bar:
> >   it is nice to have, but the effort to work it out may be too much
> >   and involves a lot of hacks.
>
> Yes, (a) is how it already works. Since we have drop shadows, I don't
> this this is much of an issue. If it ends up being a problem, I would
> suggest we move to (b), as that should be easier to implement that
> having a condition to check whether the menu item you've selected is
> the first in the list, and if so, pushing it's submenu down by a few
> pixels.
>
> J.
>
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