Re: My GWorkspace feature request

[Philippe C . D . Robert]

On Monday, June 23, 2003, at 10:09 PM, MJ Ray wrote:

> Lars Sonchocky-Helldorf <Lars.Sonchocky-Helldorf@bbdo-interone.de> 
> wrote:
> > On 23.06.2003 19:48:38 MJ Ray wrote:
> > > Philippe C.D Robert <philippe.robert@gmx.net> wrote:
> > > > I do not, at least not intentionally. Contextual menus are as much
> > > > hidden as any other submenu of the app's menu.
> > > How does one detach a context menu to make it continuously visible?  
> > > I
> > > do that often with submenus when I use them a lot.
> > Why should anyone want this? IMHO you did not understand contextual 
> > menus.
>
> IMHO you did not understand the context of this question.  I reject the
> assertion that context menus are only has hidden as submenus because
> they cannot be made visible outside their temporary pop-up state.

It is the purpose of a contextual menu to be only valid in a certain 
context, it would break the concept of contextual menus to have them 
outside of the context, so what is your point here exactly ... ?

> > > Huh?  Surely you have to select it and then activate the menu, else 
> > > it
> > > would break the concept of "targeted actions"...
> > But you don't have to move the mouse to the menubar/application menus 
> > and
> > navigate through submenus
>
> Regardless, moving to something visible is known to be faster than 
> moving
> to something invisible.  App menus that you use a lot can be made 
> visible
> for longer than a mouse click.

You do not want to understand, don't you? To mention it again, you do 
*not* move to an invisible menu, you point-click the object and the 
menu appears right below your mouse pointer, there is absolutely *no* 
mouse movement involved here!!!

Besides this does not interfere with the concept of app menus which are 
forced to stay visible!

-Phil
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Philippe C.D. Robert
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