On 06/16/2011 06:59 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
... many people had significant
trouble navigating the typical Windows / GNOME 2 nested menu system full
of wide-but-short entries. They would lose levels in the nesting by
moving the mouse a bit wrong.
This is because clicking [Button1 down up] does not temporarily "pin" the
clicked sub-menu. For example in gnome-desktop-2.32.0-2.fc14, clicking
Applications brings up a sub-menu, but clicking the Accessories item does not
pin the Accessories sub-menu until the next click (whether the next click
is within that sub-menu or occurs somewhere else.) Instead, clicking Accessories
then moving the pointer down to Games brings up the Games sub-menu. This
user-interface mistake (clicking on a choice should pin that choice until
another click) is the cause of much mis-selection. The current behavior
does not match the expectations of users.
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