Re: [Usability] GNOME Menu: "Entire menu" for starters

[Mark McLoughlin <mark skynet ie>]

Hi Christian,

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 15:17, Christian Neumair wrote:
> Am Di, 2003-09-02 um 13.48 schrieb Mark McLoughlin:
> > Hi Christian,
> > 
> > On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 09:39, Christian Neumair wrote:
> > > I recently tried to add a whole menu to my panel and I must say I was
> > > confused: To select options that apply for a whole menu, I had to select
> > > an item inside that menu and open the submenu "Entire menu" from the
> > > popup. Is this really intuitive?
> > > In my opinion, the "Entire menu" contents should be displayed when
> > > right-clicking the menu itself.
> > 
> > 	Yes, I agree. I'd be surprised if this wasn't in bugzilla already - if
> > it isn't you should log it.
> I assume patches for that won't be accepted before 2.4 - is this a new
> *feature* or considered a bug fix? 

	No, we're in hard code freeze now.

> There are two old bugzilla entry that
> name this issue [1], [2]. When do we have a chance to get this
> integrated? In my opinion, this falls into the UI polish category and
> could be integrated into 2.3.x/2.4.0.
> I've taken a look at the source code and all it looks like all we have
> to do is separate out a code block from show_item_menu in
> gnome-panel/menu.c, and add a new callback / signal connect / response
> function for the menu so I could easily write a patch if desired.

	Yes, writing and testing a patch and adding it to bugzilla would be
great.

Thanks,
Mark.