Re: Gestures implementation (was: Debian defaults (was: Galeon 1.3 comments))

On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 12:38:23PM +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 11:04, Sven Luther wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 08:09:46PM +0300, Tommi Komulainen wrote:
> > > > What makes it worst, is that apparently the first context menu call
> > > > takes longer to appear than the subsequent ones, maybe because the menu
> > > > has to be generated or something such.
> > > 
> > > I think this affects context menus in general.  Like you said, there's
> > > probably some overhead (bonobo_window_add_popup?) involved in the first
> > > use.  It can probably be minimized by adding all the popups in an idle
> > > loop after creating the window, if you're interested.
> > 
> > As an example of something needing fixed with the current gesture
> > support is the following. I had not yet touched the right mouse button
> > since i launched galeon today, and i pressed it quickly to bring up a
> > menu (not moving the mouse or anything). What happened is that, maybe
> > because bonobo was generating a menu or something such, apparently the
> > mouse release event was lost, and it stayed with the little stencil
> > icon, in gesture mode i guess. This is with an Athlon XP1700 and no load
> > except the one from galeon.
> > 
> > Subsequent right mouse click didn't have this problem. 
> 
> Yes, I'm aware of that problem.  I have an idea that might help, but the
> bug is quite difficult to trigger, and even if you do it's relatively
> harmless, so it hasn't been a priority.

The unaware user could trigger an unwated gesture though.

Friendly,

Sven Luther


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