Re: Menu questions, irritations and whuzzy feelings

[Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk>]

"r ve" <kaas_10 hotmail com> writes:

> 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?

I agree that it should be possible, at least as a theme option. It may
be a technical problem that the prelight color is already used for
showing selected items, so that there is no natural color to use for
highlighting.

> 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?

The cvs version of gtk+, which will become 2.2, sets this delay to 0
by default. The cvs version has a few other menu changes that should
make them feel better overall.

> 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.
[...]
>    Is there a way to remove this gap and add it to the menu items
> itself? (in the theme file or so)

I agreee it should either be removed or turned into a
theme-setting. You could file a bugzilla bug to track the issue.

> 4) Highlighting again; Why aren't the disabled items highlighted in
> some way? (feels better :)

This would also be an advantage for keyboard navigation. For mouse
navigation, I think the main problem with disabled items not being
highlighted is actually another problem: a submenu remains popped out
if you move the cursor to hover over a disabled item.

The problem here is that the color used for the text in disabled menu
items is not necessarily visible on top of the color for selected
items. I'm not sure how much of a problem that _really_ is, though.


Søren