Re: Menu questions, irritations and whuzzy feelings

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Normally I'm telling people to mail here instead of gtk-devel-list,
but I think this is the other way around; the people who work on 
this stuff don't necessarily read gtk-list regularly.

If you repost it to gtk-devel-list, you might want to consider
using some term other than 'whuzzy' in your descriptions; frankly,
it doesn't convey a whole lot of information to me :-)

Regards,
                                        Owen

> 1) Nearly everything in GTK(2) can be highlighted by hovering over it
> using the mouse.
>    Why isn't this possible with the items in the menubar?
> 
> 2) The popup time (delay) from menu's popped up from the menubar makes
> everything feel a bit whuzzy, is it possible to change this delay to
> some other value or even voiding it out completely?
>    I've searched these lists for more information about this and it
> seems that this delay was added because it looked too slow those days
> (way back in 1998 or so), but these days I don't believe it's slow
> (faster computers, GTK itself is faster, etc)
> 
> 3) On my current installation of GNOME2/GTK2 (RH8 default G2) there's
> a gap between the menu items (in the menubar, or shell, whatever name
> one prefers) of 6 pixels.
>    This gap does also make everything feel a bit more whuzzy than neccesary.
>    A few weeks/months ago I looked into the GTK2 code, and saw that
> this was implemented using a constant value of 3 (on both sides of
> each menubar/shell item, so that makes it the afore mentioned value of
> 6)
>    Is there a way to remove this gap and add it to the menu items
> itself? (in the theme file or so)
> 
> 4) Highlighting again; Why aren't the disabled items highlighted in
> some way? (feels better :)
> 
> 
> Well, thanks for answering the questions, and keep up the awesome work
> on GTK2!
> GTK2 was one of the reasons for me to switch from another DE (ánd
> Windows, which I'm not using anymore) to GNOME2 so it must be very
> good :)