Re: first item selected in right-click menus

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

Darin Adler <darin bentspoon com> writes:

> >> 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.

Note that right-click-release in GTK+ does not execute the first
item in the menu.

Try it.

Regards,
                                        Owen