On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 07:29, Darin Adler wrote: > > >> Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com> said: > >> > >> My guess is that eazel changed this since this is how windows does > >> popup context menus. FWIW, I agree with marco and we should follow > >> the gtk standard for this. If the gtk way of doing this is broken gtk > >> needs to be fixed imho. (not saying gtk is broken in this respect, I > >> don't really have an opinion other than consistency is good.) > > It seems fine to make this match the rest of gtk, but I can explain the > reason we changed this in the Eazel days. It wasn't a desire to imitate > Windows, although Macintosh and Windows both make this same design > choice. > > The reason to not have an item highlighted when you first click is that > if someone right clicks without realizing that's going to bring up a > menu, you don't want that to quickly bring up and dismiss an unexpected > menu and execute the first command in that menu. If the first command > in every right-click menu is carefully examined to be sure that it's > something harmless, then perhaps it's not a problem, but I think that's > impractical. > > I do think gtk needs to be fixed. I don't want to advocate over-configurability, but this seems like a place where (a) consistancy throught a user's environment is important and (b) for advanced users, having the first item selected is very nice. For example, "New Window" in gnome terminal, "back" in galeon, etc. --Ben
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