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Bug 136722 - Context Menu position of Notification Area icons is inconsistent
Context Menu position of Notification Area icons is inconsistent
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: notification area
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal trivial
: ---
Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-03-10 06:44 UTC by Paul Seropian
Modified: 2005-04-29 18:51 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.9/2.10



Description Paul Seropian 2004-03-10 06:44:54 UTC
Description of Problem:
    The position of context menus for Notification
Area icons is
inconsistent with those of other applets, such as
Launchers or the
Clock.
    The context menu of the Panel itself shares
this behaviour.
    Most Notification Area icons put the Quit
option right where the
mouse would be after right-clicking, and this
causes users to
unintentionally quit applications when they simply
wanted to hide the
menu.

Steps to reproduce the problem:
1. Right-click on a Notification Area icon
2. Right-click on another applet, such as a
Launcher or the Clock

Actual Results:
Context menus appear in different positions

Expected Results:
Context menu of Notification Area icon should move
out of the way, like
the context menu of other applets.
Comment 1 Bryan W Clark 2004-12-22 20:06:27 UTC
bug 116028 has a similar, but almost opposite perspective.  Basically we should
have consistency in how our context menus appear.
Comment 2 Vincent Untz 2004-12-23 07:41:06 UTC
I'm not sure we can do anything about the notification area context menu
behaviour...
Comment 3 Bryan W Clark 2005-03-24 19:45:43 UTC
yeah, asking around it seems that the context menus are up to the applet things
to draw themselves.  Since they aren't using the gnome-applet libraries for
creating the menus it doesn't seem possible to get consistent behavior here. 
Don't know what to do with this bug.
Comment 4 Bryan W Clark 2005-04-29 18:51:28 UTC
Closing as WONTFIX, just meaning that we probably would want to fix this
sometime in the future, but I don't think this is a major problem that will
cause harm and derail productivity.  If anyone does put in the effort to fixing
this, then that is good(tm)