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. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org