Re: GtkMenu and cursor change

[Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>]

"Gene Z. Ragan" <gzr ix netcom com> writes:
> 
> Is there a good usability reason that GtkMenu replaces the standard mouse
> pointer with a slightly larger, mirrored cursor?
> I realize that GTK has historical roots as a free replacement of Motif and
> this is the way that Motif treated the cursor when the user selected a menu
> and moved the mouse over it. Is there a strong usability reason for
> retaining this feature?  No other modern windowing toolkit changes the mouse
> cursor during a menu operation.  This includes Windows, MacOS, OSX and BeOS.
> There are real usability reason for not changing the shape of the mouse
> cursor during a menu selection operation.
> 
> Could this feature be re-examined for GTK 2.0?
> 

I believe the theory is "so the cursor doesn't cover up the menu
items." (Though I can believe there are problems with it.)

Suggest filing a bug in bugzilla, set to 2.0.0 milestone. It's a
trivial change but will get lost in the list archives. ;-)

Havoc