Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (761 mails)

[Ilya Chernykh <anixxsus@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 01 April 2012 23:02:11 Lew Wolfgang wrote:

> > You also don't have menu
> > >  failures where the mouse leaves the current level and you have to then 
> > > go back
> > >  to find the item from the previous tier (which can be time consuming and
> > >  *very*  annoying).
>
> Ah!  I'm glad you mention "menu failures" Graham.  This has been
> bugging me for more than 15-years!  Does anyone remember Sun's
> desktop environment OpenWindows?  It had a menu anchoring feature
> called a "pushpin".
>
> <http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-2901/6jc3a4lqi/index.html>
>
> Click on the menu pushpin and it anchors it open until you un-push
> the pin.  You could anchor a whole hierarchy of menus.
>
> I've can't fathom why this dandy feature hasn't been picked up by
> other desktop environments!  Does Sun have a copyright on it?

By the way, in KDE 2.2.2 the menu remains open at selected item until you unpush
the K-menu button. You even can start other programs and the menu will still 
remain
open.
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