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. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev > _______________________________________________ Etoile-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev
