On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Gian Paolo Lorenzetto wrote:
> Right after I posted this I did exactly the same thing :)
>
> Does anyone know if this is an explicit feature? Or just a side effect of
> something else? Would be nice in the above case if the menus left edge
> would adjust to keep the right edge on screen at all times.
>
> > > Hey, that *is* neat. Thanks for pointing that out, I like it!
> > >
> > > -Jan
> >
> > I like it too, but it catches me out sometimes :) I tend to push it over
> > to the lower left corner with just a bit of the right edge showing. All
> > well and good until I restore an app from it that has a long name. The
> > icon menu then resizes to accomodate just the shorter name entries and
> > shifts off the left of the screen altogether. I can't get it back until I
> > minimize the app again. As I've 'torn' off the menu I can't get to it
> > through a right click either. Easily recoverable, but I got very confused
> > the first time - I couldn't find it any where ;-)
The menu is stuck at its upper left corner, so when you push that corner
off the screen, and the menu size changes, the placement of the right edge
of the menu changes, not the left. Sometimes this puts the right edge off
the screen, sometimes it does not. A way you can avoid this behavior is
to pin your menu near the right side of the screen instead of the left.
Since the way you are using the menu really isn't a standard feature, but
a nice side effect, this isn't really a bug. However, it might be
advisable to include a check such that at least one of the corners was on
the screen at any time. I don't really know the right answer. I do think
this is a clear motivator to change the behavior of a left click on the
root window to clear _all_ menus, not just top level ones. I will look
into patches for both these changes; neither should be too hard.
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Gregory J. Barlow [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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