Number of times I've used gimp and mistakenly ended up tearing off a menu (easy to do only from keyboard, alt-hotkey+enter = boom menu is torn off, app focus is lost, and whats worse there's no way to get back to that menu with keyboard again.
If you notice no other modern GUI have used these for close to 20 years, no need to leave this in GTK either. -tc On Sun, May 30, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Paul Tan <[email protected]> wrote: > If you have time, could you please explain a bit about > how TearOffMenu "prevent proper keyboard operation" ? > Is that something inherent to TearOffMenu in general or > is it something specific to an application usage of > TearOffMenuItem ? > > pt > > > -----Original Message----- > From: timecop <[email protected]> > To: gEDA user mailing list <[email protected]> > Sent: Sat, May 29, 2010 5:01 pm > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: On Deprecation of GtkTearoffMenuItem > > This is the best news I've read on this list since subscribing. > I've complained about tear-off menus since at least < year 2000. > Shit is annoying, gets in the way, prevents proper keyboard operation, > yadayada. > Kill it with fire. > > -tc > > > > _______________________________________________ > geda-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user > _______________________________________________ geda-user mailing list [email protected] http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-user
