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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Context menus
From:       Michael Reiher <michael.reiher () gmx ! de>
Date:       1999-11-25 20:13:43
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Matthias Ettrich wrote:
> 
> X defines a symbol XK_Menu, I suggest we simply use this. We can motivate the
> Linux distributors and/or XFree to map the menu key to the XK_Menu symbol in
> their default configuration (most should do this anyway, right?). Qt maps this
> symbol to Key_Menu.
What you understand under "menu key"? The Start Menu key or the Context
Menu key?
Anyway, what about the other one? Is something like XK_Menu defined for
it, too?

> 
> Strange, my X produces Hyper_L when typing the menu key.... but that's easy to
> fix in an Xmodmap.
> 
> On the other hand: we don't need to require people to hack their Xmodmaps.... I
> will write a utility class KContextMenu that also deals with the press/release
> issue (remember: we still didn't decide whether to show a context menu on press
> or on release. Personally, I prefer release now, but probably we have to make
> it configurable. Encapsulated in one class, that's easy.)

What's the problem with the way it currently is? I.e. the menu appears
on press. But it stays there if you release the button right after
pressing without moving it(Which is what you want, if I got it right).
So you can do both press-drag-release_and_select or
press-release-drag-select. But you can't do the first thing if the menu
always appears on release. I would hate that.

Greets

Michael

-- 
Michael Reiher  
     Student at Dresden University of Technology
          Department of Computer Science
               email: michael.reiher@gmx.de

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