Thanks for the report, but this is not a bug. It is deliberate and carefully designed behavior to reduce the probability of people closing a submenu by accident, when moving diagonally towards an item near the bottom of the submenu.
Discussion from when this was implemented in GTK: <http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2000-May/msg00118.html> Illustration of the same effect on the Mac: <http://www.quinn.echidna.id.au/Quinn/WWW/HISubtleties/HierarchicalMenus.html> ** Changed in: gtk+2.0 (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Invalid -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/157509 Title: Moving mouse diagonally in complex GTK menu has bad response time -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
