I believe, what you describe is something different.

The problem on Mac is that otherwise normal top-level
menu item (Help or Tools in PacMan) is broken. As a result,
instead of showing the pull-down is does nothing when clicked.



> From: bill lam <[email protected]>
> 
> IIRC this is not a bug itself, but it is the intended behavior of
> menubar widget in some gui system, menubar in gtk also shares the same
> behavior.  It is not the position that matters, but any item inside a
> menubar will not trigger user callback other than showing its submenu
> when mouse clicked/hover. A submenu should be used as what you
> suggested.
> 
> 
> On Mon, 07 Sep 2009, Oleg Kobchenko wrote:
> > See the bug entry
> > 
> http://www.jsoftware.com/jwiki/System/Portable%20Front%20End/Bugs#LastMenuEmptyonIntelMac
> > 
> > On (Snow) Leopard, where Help menu is special--but not necessarily the 
> > cause,
> > 
> > the last menu pull-down is empty. It is typically Help; so the Help item is
> > present on the menu bar, but there is pull-down, when clicked.
> > 
> > The bigger problem is when it not Help that is the last item, such as
> > on the Package Manager menu. So the application looses necessary 
> functionality.
> > 
> > An immediate workaround for such applications is to add a bogus Help
> > item, so that the functional item starts working. This is before a system
> > fix is available.
> 
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