Re: right click *in* a menu

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 13:34 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> Some users of my software raised this issue in the last 24hrs:
> 
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> >
> > > I still call `!' `pling'...
> >
> > I'm still missing the extremely handy RiscOS feature that right-click
> > on a menu allowed to make a selection without closing the menu. Such
> > a thing in GTK would have me saved hours of re-opening nested menus
> > in Ardour.
> >
> > Ciao,
> 
> I'm wishing for that as well all the time. I wonder who came up with the
> idea that there's only ever one thing you want to do in a menu. Didn't
> know anyone was clever enough to implement something as complex as
> "don't close menu if right-clicked" or "don't close if modifier is
> pressed when menu-item is clicked".
> 
> It's one of those obvious user interface doh's.

For check and radio buttons, you can hit space to toggle them without
closing the menu.

- Owen