Re: [Usability] When does a click occur?

[Soeren Sandmann <sandmann daimi au dk>]

Kevin Steen <gnome kevinsteen net> writes:

> Personally I'd recommend:
> a. Popup menus are away from the mouse, so no items become highlighted
> automatically.
> b. Menus appear on the button down event
> c. Releasing the mouse button over a highlighted menu item activates the
> item.

(a) is the default behavior in gtk+ and has been for a very long
time. (b) is up to the application, but most actually do show the menu
on mouse down. (c) should be fixed in gtk+ 2.6.1. Before 2.6.1 there
was a bug where a button-down/move-over-item/release that happened
within .5 not actually activate.

> Just having (a) consistently implemented would eliminate much of the
> annoyance, 

What version of GTK+ are you using? What applications actually
highlight an item on right-click? To get that, you would have to
implement your own positioning function in GTK+ instead of using the
default.


Soeren