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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [PATCH]: menu button in window deco
From:       Matt Bonyak <dingodonkey () stny ! rr ! com>
Date:       2002-07-20 1:13:32
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On Friday 19 July 2002 09:20 pm, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> Hi ...
>
> while experimenting with kwin window decorations, i discovered that single
> clicking the menu button when the menu is already shown does not hide the
> menu. this is unlike other menus in KDE.

*clickaclicka*

> even worse, double clicking on the menu button actually closes the window!
> this is hidden, destructive, duplicated behaviour that is overloaded onto a
> widget whose purpose is not closing windows (it's popping up a menu).

Heh, now you tell me...  This is a problem, alright!  A friend using Windows 
2000 says that it still operates that way -- and, he says that the reasoning 
is that before there was an "X" button, that was how you closed a window.  I 
guess I was too young in those days to remember :)


 - dingo
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