GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 124599
moving through menus with mouse down sometimes causes erroneous drag to start
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
Distribution: Slackware Slackware 9.1.0 Package: gnome-panel Severity: normal Version: GNOME2.4.0 2.4.x Gnome-Distributor: GNOME.Org Synopsis: moving through menus with mouse down sometimes causes erroneous drag to start Bugzilla-Product: gnome-panel Bugzilla-Component: Panel Bugzilla-Version: 2.4.x Description: Description of Problem: If you use Gnome like a Mac, whereby you click and drag to the menu item you want, this sometimes turns into a drag operation, which I don't believe is supposed to happen. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Left-click on Applications menu in panel, and drag pointer through menu entries. Occasionally, one menu will end up being dragged instead of selected. It's not consistent, and only happens now and then. Actual Results: A drag operation. Expected Results: A menu selection. How often does this happen? My guess so far is about one time in a few dozen to a few hundred times. Additional Information: It is possible that this behavior is more frequent if you drag the mouse out of an opened menu and then back into it. For example, open Applications->Programming and then move the mouse (without letting go of the button) to the desktop and back, repeatedly. That might make it easier to repeat the problem. ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2003-10-14 15:15 ------- The original reporter (csh@widomaker.com) of this bug does not have an account here. Reassigning to the exporter, unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org. Reassigning to the default owner of the component, gnome-panel-maint@bugzilla.gnome.org.
I can't see how this can happen, unless you release the button while navigating and reclick on it. And, well, if you release the button, then the behaviour can't be otherwise... Or am I not understanding something ?
Just now I moved my mouse to "Applications" in the panel, held down the left mouse button, and dragged the pointer down toward "Control Center". Before I got there and released the mouse button, it turned into a drag operation. Basically, the pointer highlighted each menu item it got to "Programming", and then became a drag operation for that menu. I don't know what else I can say. It isn't frequent, and it is hard to reproduce, but it does happen often enough to be very annoying.
I'm reopening. I'm really sceptical: maybe your mouse has a problem ? Mark/Arvind: can this happen ?
According to xev, there are no spurious button-up events which might cause the problem I am seeing. I conclude that my mice are fine. This test should catch just about anything: bad mouse, bad PS/2 driver, bad kernel interface, bad X server... anything. Also, if this were something like that, I would expect that most any program that I used this mouse with would have similar issues. I just clicked on "Actions" and as soon as a moved the mouse downward I got the drag-n-drop icon. I've asked some other people to try and duplicate the problem for me, and will add comments if anyone else sees it. If you think the xev test is inconclusive in showing there are no spurious X events occuring on my system, I'm open to suggestions.
Another local Gnome 2.4 user has reported to me that he sees the same problem. I've given him the bug URL to review/comment.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 108166 ***