Re: [Usability] GTK ComboBox

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 19:06 -0400, Jacob Beauregard wrote:

> Let's say there is a combo box towards the bottom of a window. This combo box 
> does not show all of the options because of the behavior of the default 
> option being under the mouse. The options are available, however, not visible 
> and certainly not immediately at hand.

Hmm, I guess I'm misunderstanding, because I'm not seeing this... can
you give an example of a core GNOME app where this is happening?  Any
combo box I can find on my desktop, the menu position is adjusted to be
entirely visible if necessary when I click it, so I still get to see all
the options.

One problem I do see is that the item under the mouse is always
immmediately highlighted whether or not it's the current selection, when
in fact the current selection should be highlighted regardless of the
mouse pointer position until you move the mouse again (or change the
selection with the arrow keys).

Cheeri,
Calum.

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