Re: My GWorkspace feature request

[MJ Ray]

Philippe C.D. Robert <probert@sgi.com> wrote:
> So you actually did write about moving to a contextual menu, you just call
> it "invisible menu item". If this is something different then please
> explain what you mean by that.

An item on the menu that hasn't appeared, evidently.  To do anything
useful with your menu, you have to move to an item on it, not just pop
it up.

> Anyway, my point is that you don't move at all to a contextual menu, since
> it shows up where your mouse pointer is.

Yes, so you keep saying, totally ignoring my point.  I think we've all
gathered that the menu appears nearer the pointer *if* you know it exists.
Then again, so does the main menu already.  No gain either way.

>> Yes, menus can be detached anyway, so why is there all this talk about
>> special contextual menus? They add nothing but interface confusion.
>> GNUstep does not need that.
> Because a contextual menu contains menu entries which are diffierent to the
> global main menu, they are specific to the selected object. Thus the word
> "contextual"...

Are you saying that you want items on the pop-up menu that are not on the
global menu?  That would be Evil, Bad and Wrong, as well as inconsistent.
If you only want items on there that are available (ie not greyed), then
that breaks (or at least stretches) the idea of constant menu geography.
I think is one of the things that we have right already and shouldn't
sacrifice cheaply.

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