For what it's worth, I'm guessing the current behavior is what was intended all along, and we've all been using what was previously an accidental 'feature' to accomplish something (using padding as a menu offset) to improve the usability of the context menus.
On Tue, Oct 29, 2013 at 9:26 PM, Emilio Pozuelo Monfort <poch...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > On 30/10/13 01:10, Michael Webster wrote: > > Apologies if this has been brought up already... > > > > This patch: > > > > > https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk+/commit/gtk/gtkmenu.c?id=01dc23cdec377c9d9897cc32bf28ec1d241b29fa > > Is it just me or all these changes we've recently made are not > 'deprecations' > but ABI breaks? > > If foo_frobnicate() changes from doing something useful to being a nop, > we're > breaking our interface, whether we keep the symbol in the DSO or not. > GObject > properties are no different. > > Don't get me wrong, I'm not against this kind of changes. But I'd rather > see us > keep compatibility until GTK+ 4 is out than (rightfully) piss off our users > because of changes like this. > > Regards, > Emilio > > > > > deprecated GtkMenu-horizontal-padding and GtkMenu-vertical-padding, > > suggesting that CSS padding is used instead. The problem is that these > two > > values were commonly used to provide a slight 'nudge' to context menus to > > prevent the first item in the menu from being automatically highlighted > > (and possibly inadvertantly selected) when the context menu appeared > under > > the pointer. > > > > With this deprecation, we can no longer do this - and adding more padding > > is simply compensated for in the positioning code, so that first menu > item > > is always selected. > > > > It would be nice to have some sort of either gtk setting or even > hard-code > > in 1 or 2 pixels of extra position in X and Y to avoid this situation, > > which could be very frustrating to deal with. > > > > Thanks > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > gtk-devel-list mailing list > > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > gtk-devel-list mailing list > gtk-devel-list@gnome.org > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list >
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