Re: Overlapping Submenus?

Peter,

Ideally, wouldn't Mozilla obey your fvwm settings?

- Aaron


Peter Daum wrote:
> 
> Actually, I had hoped that there might be some way to configure
> the behavior of mozilla's menus. With fvwm, for example, you can
> configure how much overlap you want (and any other aspect of it's 
> behavior) - which also shows, that not all menus on the platform (X11)
> behave the same. Actually, Motif's menus (used for example in Netscape
> 4.x) also don't behave this way. There, submenus are opened with an
> explicit mouse click and stay posted until another mouse click occurs. 
> Is there any way to get this behavior back in Mozilla? (As i already
> mentioned, the "ui.submenuDelay" option doesn't seem to work).
> 
> Regards,
>                   Peter
> 
> Aaron Leventhal wrote:
> 
>> Mozilla tries to make it's widgets work exactly the way  widgets work on
>> each platform it runs on. If there's a platform that overlaps menus, I
>> think there would be a good argument for doing that with Mozilla menus
>> on that platform.
>>
>> Personally I don't use the mouse to open menus at all because I think it
>> is inconvenient, when compared to the keyboard access that's available.
>>
>> You could file a bug and see who else agrees with you.
>>
>> - Aaron
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