** Description changed: - Binary package hint: indicator-application + gtk 2.22, Ubuntu 10.10 - Application Indicators are tiny icons with large menus. When you've - opened one such menu you can browse through the others simply by moving - your mouse of the other icons. + 1. Click on the volume control to open the sound menu. + 2. Move the pointer diagonally to click on the maximum volume button. - However, this does cause problems when you quickly want to go to one of - the menu items. As illustrated in the attached screenshot you often go - over neighbouring icons. This closes the menu with the menu item you - were planning to click and opens the other. + What often happens: The sound menu closes, and the menu next to it opens. + Screnshot: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/42732636/Why_autoexpanding_indicators_are_a_bad_idea.png + Screencast: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVUokjAlREs> + + What should happen: The sound menu stays open. A solution would be to use a timer for the 'auto-expanding' feature. From an IRC conversation on this bug: "<bratsche> Okay, so gtk+ has something internal called (I think) a stay-up triangle.. but as far as I know, it's only used when dealing with submenus from a menu. - But try to envision a menu with several menuitems, and the first menuitem has a submenu with several menuitems. Your mouse is currently over the top menuitem of the parent menu and the submenu from it is open to the right. - Now when you move the mouse toward say the middle of that submenu, you'll probably mouse-over a menuitem below the current one in the parent menu.. - But there are two things that can keep it from becoming the active menuitem.. a timer, and this stay-up triangle. + But try to envision a menu with several menuitems, and the first menuitem has a submenu with several menuitems. Your mouse is currently over the top menuitem of the parent menu and the submenu from it is open to the right. + Now when you move the mouse toward say the middle of that submenu, you'll probably mouse-over a menuitem below the current one in the parent menu.. + But there are two things that can keep it from becoming the active menuitem.. a timer, and this stay-up triangle. <bratsche> Anyway, we should think about this some. Indicator icons are small enough that in the case of indicator-sound, going to all the trouble of duplicating this stay-up triangle might be more trouble than it's worth. Judging by the screenshot in qense's bug, the stay-up triangle would cover most the majority of the neighboring indicator icon anyway, so maybe a simple timer would be enough." - ProblemType: Bug - DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04 - Package: indicator-application 0.0.18-0ubuntu1 - ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-18.27-generic 2.6.32.10+drm33.1 - Uname: Linux 2.6.32-18-generic i686 - Architecture: i386 - Date: Thu Apr 1 00:43:59 2010 - EcryptfsInUse: Yes - ProcEnviron: - PATH=(custom, user) - LANG=en_US.utf8 - SHELL=/bin/bash - SourcePackage: indicator-application + Illustration of the invisible triangle for submenus: + <http://www.quinn.echidna.id.au/Quinn/WWW/HISubtleties/HierarchicalMenus.html> + Discussion of the invisible triangle for submenus in GTK: + <http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gtk-devel-list/2000-May/msg00118.html>
** Summary changed: - Auto-expanding AppIndicator menus makes navigating to menu items harder + Moving diagonally from narrow menu title often opens adjacent menu -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552920 Title: Moving diagonally from narrow menu title often opens adjacent menu -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
