[openbox] Menu behaviour

Mikael Magnusson mangosoft at comhem.se
Fri May 21 18:20:47 EDT 2004


On Fri, 21 May 2004, Daniel Teichert wrote:

> And I heard tim hall exclaim:
> > The one thing I'm not so happy with is the menu behavior, some of my 
> > sub-menus are rather long (I like them that way) and subsequently they jump 
> > around annoyingly on my screen. Is it possible, dare I say it, to get them to 
> 
> Did you by any chance get any solutions to this off-list, or did I maybe
> miss a response? The default Debian menus have this problem with a
> vengeance if you have any number of packages installed (I know I could
> redo them so it didn't happen but that would be both an initial and a
> maintenance pain). It really is very difficult to navigate---depending
> on where an item is in the menu I may just open an xterm and run it
> 'by hand' rather than try to get to it in the menus... Out of
> curiosity, why was this behavior adopted? I assume it was deliberate and
> with good reason since it's a variation from what seems to be the 'norm'
> in most blackbox-like window managers...
> 
> I also hasten to add that other than this feature I love openbox and
> think it's one of the greatest things since sliced bread ;). I'm hoping
> there's an answer to your question so I can push it up even past the
> 'sliced bread' mark ;).
> 
> Thanks for a great piece of software!

I think the thought was that if a menu has so many entries that it doesn't 
fit on screen, it is way too long anyway, and isn't openbox' problem to 
fix.

--
Mikael Magnusson



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