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

[Christian Neumair <chris gnome-de org>]

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? 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.

> 
> 	IMHO, though, the whole right-clicking on menu-items thing sucks and
> should be dumped. However, there are valid use cases there and I'm not
> sure how best you'd replace it.
[2] suggests to remove the entire right-clicking stuff - I think the
current situation is - although of not satisfying me - the best
solution.

regs,
 Chris

[1] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=82241
[2] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84555