dropdown menu's

[Dariusz J. Garbowski]

On 03/05/2006 12:15 AM, Leszek Matok wrote:
> Dnia 05-03-2006, nie o godzinie 00:37 +0100, Erwin Rol napisał(a): 
>> This is something that already bothers me a while, i think it never
>> really worked as expected, but i am not sure if it is a "my machine
>> only" kind of problem.
> From http://www.gtk.org/api/2.6/gtk/GtkComboBox.html
> "The style in which the selected value is displayed, and the style of
> the popup is determined by the current theme. It may be similar to a
> GtkOptionMenu, or similar to a Windows-style combo box."
> 
> So probably it can be changed in the theme (or only the look and color,
> but not that behavior), but all themes I have here (Fedora 3) have it
> the way you experience and dislike. The purpose is to have the currently
> selected option right in the place where the option menu is, so you can
> click it to see other options and click in the same place again not
> changing anything (instead of clicking somewhere else in the window or
> hitting Esc). Anyways, it's not Fedora-specific.

It's silly -- you click on the combobox to see what other options are 
and yet you don't see them! util of course you move the mouse to the 
bottom of the screen, wait for the whole list to scroll up (never mind 
that there was enough space on screen to display all option in the first 
place) and only then you can decide whether you actually want to change 
the option. Now how on Earth can you save any time or effort of moving 
cursor some place else in the window to click to cancel? Very smart...

I dislike this "design" too :(

Dariusz


	
	
		
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