On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 05:47:56PM +0100, Philipp Überbacher wrote:
> Excerpts from fons's message of 2010-12-06 13:09:42 +0100:
> > On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:56:01PM +1000, M Watts wrote:
> >
> > > I still call `!' `pling'...
> >
> > I'm still missing the extremely handy RiscOS feature that right-click
> > on a menu allowed to make a selection without closing the menu. Such
> > a thing in GTK would have me saved hours of re-opening nested menus
> > in Ardour.
> >
> > Ciao,
>
> I'm wishing for that as well all the time. I wonder who came up with the
> idea that there's only ever one thing you want to do in a menu. Didn't
> know anyone was clever enough to implement something as complex as
> "don't close menu if right-clicked" or "don't close if modifier is
> pressed when menu-item is clicked".
Could be a 'religiuous' aka 'UI standards' thing: 'You Shall
Not Abuse a Menu to Be a Dialog' (unless you don't mind your
offspring to be cursed for the next 10 generations).
Ciao,
-- FA There are three of them, and Alleline. _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@email-addr-hidden http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-userReceived on Tue Dec 7 00:15:03 2010
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