Re: right click *in* a menu

[Martin Nordholts <enselic gmail com>]

On 12/06/2010 11:37 PM, Petr Tomasek wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:38:34PM +0100, Jernej Simončič wrote:
> > On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:33:21 -0500, Paul Davis wrote:
> >
> > > well, i think it implies being able to use a menu like a dialog
> > > window.
> >
> > Exactly. If you need the menu to behave like a dialog box, use a dialog
> > box.
>
> Hm, why are you so dogmatic? Normal user uses _left_ click for
> opening the menu and _left_ click chooses an menu iterm and
> closes the menu.
>
> So it is quite usefull to reuse _right_ click for other task,
> such as for selecting multiple items out of the menu at once.
>
> I don't see any reason, why a dialog box must be used if for
> most users the menu is optimal way (because they select
> only one item most the time) and the minority may use it
> with the right click in a more powerfull way.

The problem to be solved is not "How do we modify GTK+ to make it as 
easy as possible to invoke nested menu items several times in a row in 
Ardour", but "How can we redesign the Ardour UI so users don't have to 
invoke nested menu items several times in a row to use the software".

Like you though, I strongly doubt dialog boxes will be part of an 
optimal solution.

 / Martin


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