GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 136722
Context Menu position of Notification Area icons is inconsistent
Last modified: 2005-04-29 18:51:28 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.
bug 116028 has a similar, but almost opposite perspective. Basically we should have consistency in how our context menus appear.
I'm not sure we can do anything about the notification area context menu behaviour...
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.
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)