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Application Indicators are tiny icons with large menus. When you've
opened one such menu you can browse through the others simply by moving
your mouse of the other icons.
However, this does cause problems when you quickly want to go to one of
the menu items. As illustrated in the attached screenshot you often go
over neighbouring icons. This closes the menu with the menu item you
were planning to click and opens the other.
A solution would be to use a timer for the 'auto-expanding' feature.
>From an IRC conversation on this bug:
"<bratsche> Okay, so gtk+ has something internal called (I think) a stay-up
triangle.. but as far as I know, it's only used when dealing with submenus from
a menu.
But try to envision a menu with several menuitems, and the first menuitem has
a submenu with several menuitems. Your mouse is currently over the top
menuitem of the parent menu and the submenu from it is open to the right.
Now when you move the mouse toward say the middle of that submenu, you'll
probably mouse-over a menuitem below the current one in the parent menu..
But there are two things that can keep it from becoming the active menuitem..
a timer, and this stay-up triangle.
<bratsche> Anyway, we should think about this some. Indicator icons are small
enough that in the case of indicator-sound, going to all the trouble of
duplicating this stay-up triangle might be more trouble than it's worth.
Judging by the screenshot in qense's bug, the stay-up triangle would cover
most the majority of the neighboring indicator icon anyway, so maybe a simple
timer would be enough."
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: indicator-application 0.0.18-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-18.27-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-18-generic i686
Architecture: i386
Date: Thu Apr 1 00:43:59 2010
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
ProcEnviron:
PATH=(custom, user)
LANG=en_US.utf8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: indicator-application
** Affects: indicator-application
Importance: Undecided
Status: Invalid
** Affects: gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu)
Importance: Low
Status: Triaged
** Tags: apport-bug i386 lucid
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Auto-expanding AppIndicator menus makes navigating to menu items harder
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/bugs/552920
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