Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Full Text Issue Listing |
Summary: | Long Menu Items | ||||||||
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Product: | ui | Reporter: | discoleo <discoleo> | ||||||
Component: | ui | Assignee: | AOO issues mailing list <issues> | ||||||
Status: | UNCONFIRMED --- | QA Contact: | |||||||
Severity: | Trivial | ||||||||
Priority: | P3 | CC: | issues | ||||||
Version: | OOo 2.0.3 | ||||||||
Target Milestone: | AOO PleaseHelp | ||||||||
Hardware: | All | ||||||||
OS: | All | ||||||||
Issue Type: | ENHANCEMENT | Latest Confirmation in: | --- | ||||||
Developer Difficulty: | --- | ||||||||
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Description
discoleo
2006-09-26 16:23:41 UTC
Created attachment 39596 [details]
Long Menu with Opened Submenus
I have created an attachement (it is actually from Seamonkey, NOT OOo, but it underscores what I tried to explain). It is by no means the worst menu I encountered, in some locales, most menus are even wider. For OOo, see e.g. OOo Calc -> Format -> the various submenus there; even in the english version, the "Format menu" is very wide. If you want to do something very fast and your mouse just isn't the best one (like so often happens), you easily slip with the mouse in the wrong submenu (because the mouse has sometimes its own will). IF the menu wouldn't be so wide, the chance of that happening would be less. As explained, if there would be an option to click on the menu which opens the submenu, and automatically move/put the mouse inside that submenu, this would be great. Created attachment 39597 [details]
Real Calc Menus which are wide
My second jpeg-image shows a real Calc-Menu that is even worse. The problem here is, that the opened submenu is close to the main menu bar. If it happens that the mouse slips *ONTO* the menu bar, - the menu and submenu closes - while a new menu will open (in this case most probably the "Data" or the "Windows" menus) This way, it is even more cumbersome: you need to get back to the "Insert Menu" -> and enter the submenu. [Sorry for 2 separate posts, I forgot to point this in my previous one.] Well, this issue is really about mouse travel distance. Please also see issue http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=19557 for a similar feature request/problem. I strongly favour *very short* menu entries. IF such short menus cannot be made, then: - implement a method in which when clicking on the submenu-name, the submenu opens and the mouse is positioned on an item of the submenu (instead of displaying the submenu AND having to travel with the mouse inside the submenu) - draw the submenus (when they open) NOT close to the menu-bar. This minimizes the risk that the mouse inadvertently slips to the next menu group - maybe some other breakthrough GUI technology ES, please care about this. Reassigned |