From kde-core-devel  Tue Jan 22 12:04:23 2002
From: Andy Fawcett <andy () athame ! co ! uk>
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:04:23 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Detailed menus: a solution for 3.1
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=101170223902034

At 12:51 22/01/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>On Tuesday, 22. January 2002 12:46, Rob Kaper wrote:
> > On Tuesday 22 January 2002 12:01, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > > I like the idea, but I agree with Matthias that the comment should appear
> > > closer. The idea we discussed here was to replace the actual menu entry
> > > with a twice as large entry while you're over the mouse. If just I could
> > > use gimp, I would show you :)
> > >
> > > The problem is with the approach that I can't tell how it feels to use it
> > > with the mouse. Theoretically it shouldn't be a problem, but without
> > > implementing it I can't say :(
> >
> > Something like http://capsi.com/~cap/kmenu.html, I suppose. Sounds good.
> >
>_something_ like that. The jumping of the size could be avoided in having a
>title that shows a comment when no menu item is activated. As in HTML it
>appears useless to me, but here is a gap between the images, that makes the
>concept a bit ugly, but I think you understood :)

Something like:

+-------------------+
| No Item selected  |  < this is your title comment mentioned above
| Item 1            |
| Item 2            |
| Item 3            |
+-------------------+

Giving:

+-------------------+
| This is Item one's|
| comment/tooltip   |
| Item 2            |
| Item 3            |
+-------------------+

and

+-------------------+
| Item 1            |
| This is Item two's|
| comment/tooltip   |
| Item 3            |
+-------------------+


Or am I misinterpreting?

Andy




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