On Thu, 02 Apr 2009 15:28:43 +0200, Dennis Nezic <[email protected]> wrote:
> With a long menu (and a long submenu), the bottom portion of the > submenu is not always visible on the screen. For example, if the > submenu is located near the bottom of the menu, opening it will cause > the menu to slide to the top of the screen (if the "always pop up menus > on screen" option is set"), and the submenu will open with it's top > aligned directly beside it's entry in the first menu -- which is near > the middle of the screen. In other words, the submenu only has about > half the screen's height to work with. > > I guess the easiest solution would be to fix the submenu's height to > the actual visible height that remains available to it. Another > solution would be to allow the menu to slide "above" the top of the > screen, to allow the submenu to fill the entire height. > > Also, on a related note, a submenu within a submenu is able to slide > the original menu above the top of the screen, but when one closes the > submenus, the menu doesn't automatically slide back down and become > visible until a submenu is opened -- ie. the redisplay of the menu > should be triggered after submenus are closed (or, if there's a > dirty-flag, if the menu has been moved, and a submenu closed.) > Yeah, handling of large menus does leave somewhat to be desired. I have put it on my list of things that I might get around to do something about. > On a less related note, while we're fixing up the menus :P, what are > your thoughts on word-navigation within menus? Ie. currently the menus > can only be navigated by the up/down arrow keys -- but wouldn't it be > nice if we could type substrings which automatically highlight all the > matching menu labels (maybe within submenus too?), and if there are > multiple matches, pressing tab could alternate between them? > Hmm.. I think I'll leave that as an excersize for someone who wants to implement it :) /Kim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ enlightenment-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/enlightenment-users
