Re: [gtk-list] Re: Patch: (radio|check)menuitem, list.

[Tim Janik <Tim Janik Hamburg Netsurf DE>]

On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Johannes Keukelaar wrote:

> Peter Mattis writes:
> 
> //I prefer not to have the dimples always shown as this would make a
> //menu like the "Go" menu in Netscape fairly ugly. I'm open to arguments
> //one way or another, but please (CVS folks) don't simply apply this
> //patch blindly.
> 
> Well, I didn't know it was a design decision rather than a bug. My apologies 
> for that. Allow me to argue my case.
> 
> Having just run Netscape (3.0.1) here on my Sun (with Sun's Motif library), I 
> see that the Options menu, for example, is full of dimples that are shown 
> regardless of whether or not the mouse is over the item. The Go menu, on the 
> other hand only shows a dimple on the selected item (and it's a check menu item 
> dimple, not a radio menu item dimple, while the choice is exclusive). 
> Apparently this is configurable on an item-by-item basis, then, in Motif. If 
> you think it should be configurable in gtk, as well, I would be happy to 
> provide an alternative patch that would arrange for that. (In that case, what 
> should be the default behaviour?)

please add another field to the items that can configure the
show_if_not_selected behaviour with the old bahaviour as the default case.

> 
> Johannes.

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ciaoTJ