Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-19 Thread Pavel Machek
Hi! well, i think it implies being able to use a menu like a dialog window. Exactly. If you need the menu to behave like a dialog box, use a dialog box. Hm, why are you so dogmatic? Normal user uses _left_ click for opening the menu and _left_ click chooses an menu iterm and

Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-07 Thread Paul Davis
is that any interaction with a presentation of a set of multiple actions should be done via a dialog with an explicit close operation. We *could* push all the operations in the current region context menu, for example (right click on a region - Select region name - menu with 20+ items) into a dialog

Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-07 Thread Christian Dywan
menu, for example (right click on a region - Select region name - menu with 20+ items) into a dialog for that region, but it would 1 mouse motion+drag or the use ctrl-w to every single action activation for anything on that menu when you only do a single action. Space on tick or radio leaves

Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-07 Thread Paul Davis
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 8:12 AM, Christian Dywan christ...@lanedo.com wrote: We *could* push all the operations in the current region context menu, for example (right click on a region - Select region name - menu with 20+ items) into a dialog for that region, but it would 1 mouse motion+drag

Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-07 Thread Christian Dywan
Am Tue, 7 Dec 2010 09:38:55 -0500 schrieb Paul Davis p...@linuxaudiosystems.com: We *could* push all the operations in the current region context menu, for example (right click on a region - Select region name - menu with 20+ items) into a dialog for that region, but it would 1 mouse

Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-07 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 07 Dec 2010 at 16:48:19 +0100, Christian Dywan wrote: I suppose I'd need to actually try it in a situation where it is useful. I've never used RiscOS. And on all other systems I can think of a menu is distinctly floating and temporary. RISC OS really needed this feature, where many

right click *in* a menu

2010-12-06 Thread Paul Davis
Some users of my software raised this issue in the last 24hrs: - I still call `!' `pling'... I'm still missing the extremely handy RiscOS feature that right-click on a menu allowed to make a selection without

Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-06 Thread Owen Taylor
-click on a menu allowed to make a selection without closing the menu. Such a thing in GTK would have me saved hours of re-opening nested menus in Ardour. Ciao, I'm wishing for that as well all the time. I wonder who came up with the idea that there's only ever one thing you want to do

Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-06 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:34:36 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: I'm wishing for that as well all the time. I wonder who came up with the idea that there's only ever one thing you want to do in a menu. Didn't know anyone was clever enough to implement something as complex as don't close menu if

Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-06 Thread Paul Davis
2010/12/6 Jernej Simončič jernej|s-gm...@eternallybored.org: On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:34:36 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: I'm wishing for that as well all the time. I wonder who came up with the idea that there's only ever one thing you want to do in a menu. Didn't know anyone was clever enough to

Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-06 Thread Jernej Simončič
On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:33:21 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: well, i think it implies being able to use a menu like a dialog window. Exactly. If you need the menu to behave like a dialog box, use a dialog box. i'm not convinced that this is obviously a good thing, but its not obviously bad either.

Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-06 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 12/06/2010 08:03 PM, Jernej Simončič wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 13:34:36 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: I'm wishing for that as well all the time. I wonder who came up with the idea that there's only ever one thing you want to do in a menu. Didn't know anyone was clever enough to implement

Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-06 Thread Petr Tomasek
On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:38:34PM +0100, Jernej Simončič wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:33:21 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: well, i think it implies being able to use a menu like a dialog window. Exactly. If you need the menu to behave like a dialog box, use a dialog box. Hm, why are you so

Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-06 Thread Martin Nordholts
On 12/06/2010 11:37 PM, Petr Tomasek wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:38:34PM +0100, Jernej Simončič wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:33:21 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: well, i think it implies being able to use a menu like a dialog window. Exactly. If you need the menu to behave like a dialog

Re: right click *in* a menu

2010-12-06 Thread Tristan Van Berkom
On Tue, 2010-12-07 at 08:44 +0100, Martin Nordholts wrote: On 12/06/2010 11:37 PM, Petr Tomasek wrote: On Mon, Dec 06, 2010 at 08:38:34PM +0100, Jernej Simončič wrote: On Mon, 6 Dec 2010 14:33:21 -0500, Paul Davis wrote: well, i think it implies being able to use a menu like a dialog