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Bug 75026 - Clicking anywhere on the "menubar" applet raises all menubar boxes
Clicking anywhere on the "menubar" applet raises all menubar boxes
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-panel
Classification: Other
Component: general
1.5.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Panel Maintainers
Panel Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2002-03-17 01:47 UTC by Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail]
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: 2.0


Description Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-03-17 01:47:13 UTC 
Clicking anywhere on the menubar raises all menubar boxes.

For example if i click on applications not only will applications be
highlighted but so will actions, preferences, windows and workspaces.
Comment 1 Luis Villa 2002-03-18 21:30:32 UTC 
That's because it is one applet. I'm going to save the maintainers
time and mark this WONTFIX, since I'm almost certain it would require
breaking this up into multiple applets to actually fix it.
Comment 2 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-03-18 23:11:03 UTC 
The only reason i consider this a bug is that it defers from the
current behavior of the menu panel, which the menubar is meant to
replace. But i respect the decision.
Comment 3 Luis Villa 2002-03-18 23:23:51 UTC 
I'm not saying it isn't a bug... it is. I'm just saying it is minor
and (AFAIK) would require completely revamping the entire applet into
a series of smaller applets.
Comment 4 Seth Nickell 2002-03-19 23:18:49 UTC 
I'm re-opening this bug. The applet shouldn't have to be split into
multiple applets. This would happen even if the applets were seperate.

The problem is that the panel sets the PRELIGHT style when the panel
is focused, and menubars inherit this, and then display their menus as
prelighted. Setting PRELIGHT is *wrong* here as GTK species prelight
means the mouse is over the widget. Owen said it might be possible to
hack around and get the menubar to stop inheriting.

Otherwise the only solution is to stop doing the prelighting and find
another mechanism to indicate keyboard focus.
Comment 5 Dave Bordoley [Not Reading Bug Mail] 2002-03-26 00:18:56 UTC 
I think the prelighting went away and so did this bug, marking fixed.