Re: tear-off menu items in submenus of pop-up menus

[Maciej Stachowiak <mjs eazel com>]

Darin Adler <darin eazel com> writes:

> 
> I think you interpreted my remarks as meaning the opposite of what I meant
> to say. Sorry I wasn't more clear.
> 
> I meant that I do not want any tear-off menu items for pop-ups at all (the
> main menu or the submenus). Currently, the torn off menus don't work. It's
> not typical to have the tear-off for pop-up menus. So I was just trying to
> get rid of the tear-off item.
> 
> I now realize that we could go the other way, and try to make pop-up menus
> work when torn off and add the tear-off item to the top level as you
> suggest. I'm not sure which way is better.
> 

Since right-click menus are supposed to be contextual, I don't think
tearing them off makes sense UI-wise. For example, if you select some
items, tear off the popup, and then change the selection, which
selection should it affect?

 - Maciej