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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KPopupMenu and KMenubar
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () sbox ! tu-graz ! ac ! at>
Date:       1998-01-05 21:20:08
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Preston Brown wrote:

> On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Reginald Stadlbauer wrote:
>
> > If you click on a menubar, a popupmenu drops down. If you donīt press the
> > mousebutton now, and you go with the mousecursor through the menuitems of
> > the dropped down popupmenu, in Win95 style the menuitem on which the
> > mousecursor is at the moment is highlighted. In Motif style this is not the
> > case. But if you enable mousetracking in Motif, you get this effect too.
>
> Yes, this is true.  But that is the motif style!  People who are used to
> motif apps are used to it working that way.  So I think it would kind of
> be a mistake if we subclass QPopupMenu to get "rid of this" for the motif
> stuff.  If we are going to implement this sort of feature, we need to make
> the widget look "different enough" from the stock motif one that people
> wouldn't assume that by default it is going to work just like it's real
> motif counterpart.

But in Netscape 4.0x and Maple V R4 I have (most of the time :-) this enabled
mousetracking highlighting effect. An these apps are Motif apps, or not?

Ciao, Reggie

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