On 05/04/2013 11:30, BALATON Zoltan wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Rodolfo García Peñas wrote:
>> Remove the "+ 2" is ok, but I think we should thing in change
>> the things to re-use the same functions.
> 
> You can think of that but that's beyond fixing this bug.
> 
>> Anyway, if we remove the "+ 2" (line 3222), the problem with the
>> Clip (probably Dock) is gone. But, the menu is hidden, you must
>> move the mouse down to see it (you cannot see nothing).
> 
> That's how it works if Scroll off screen menus option is turned on
> for app icons too and that's how it's supposed to work.
> 
>> In my patch, the menu is moved up 20 pixels, then, the first
>> menú entry is painted in the screen and you know that the menu is
>> there, partially hidden, but there.
> 
> While this may seem like a good idea it isn't necessarily so
> because the rationale behind the scroll off screen menus feature is
> that menus should behave the same independent of screen position
> (to allow to build "muscle memory" and know that a certain down
> move will activate the same menu item everywhere instead of having
> to find it and aim at it constantly). Thus when using this option
> you're supposed to know the menu is there and don't need visual
> clues for that. (That said the current implementation is not
> perfect because the menu scrolls up too fast so it's still not the
> same amount of downward move to select menu entries as elswhere on
> the screen but that's probably another bug. Maybe the menu is now
> scrolled if the pointer is at the screen edge but should only be
> scrolled for downward move events instead. I didn't check if this
> theory is true though.)
> 
> Regards, BALATON Zoltan

Eh!

Don't be lazy. Write the patch :-)

Saludos!
kix
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