Bug 107592 - adaptive left/right opening of submenu's
Summary: adaptive left/right opening of submenu's
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kdelibs
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Fedora RPMs Linux
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Stephan Kulow
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Reported: 2005-06-17 13:54 UTC by Albert Hofkamp
Modified: 2022-09-30 06:49 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description Albert Hofkamp 2005-06-17 13:54:18 UTC
Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.3.1)
Installed from:    Fedora RPMs
OS:                Linux

When opening a sub-menu, it always opens at the right, unless there is no space in which case it opens at the left. However that means I have to travel over the entire width of the menu (or submenu) in order to go to the (sub)submenu. I find this particular annoying when moving a window between desktops, my popup menu from the titlebar is quite wide.

Imho it would be nicer if the submenu opens at the side which is nearest. In other words, open to the left when my mouse pointer is near the left edge, and open at the right when my mouse pointer is near the right. Of course there should be space for the menu, so near the edge of the screen this behaviour should be suppressed (and open the submenu only at the direction where there is enough screen space).

This behaviour may be confusing to uniniated users, so it should be configurable to behave like it does today.
For example, when opening a 3-deep nested sub-menu, you need to decide *ahead* whether to open the submenu s at the left or at the right, in order to keep an overview of what you are doing, rather than simply moving the mouse pointer in the direction of where the submenu happens to pop up (which would result in a kind of zigzag stack of submenus, which is quite non-readable).
Comment 1 Albert Hofkamp 2005-06-17 13:57:41 UTC
wish seems to have been added already as bug #107583 . I re-submitted because I got a 'internal server error'.
Sorry for the confusion.

Albert
Comment 2 Albert Hofkamp 2005-06-17 13:59:33 UTC
I was too fast, the previous bug does not have any text, I am re-opening this bug and closing the other one.
Comment 3 Lubos Lunak 2005-06-20 20:01:48 UTC
You might want to have a look at http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=2439 .
Comment 4 Albert Hofkamp 2005-06-22 11:11:57 UTC
The referred url (http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=2439) comes up empty in my browser in the sense that the center of the page where the application is supposed to appear is empty except for the text "not found".
Comment 5 Lubos Lunak 2005-06-22 11:42:56 UTC
Sorry, last digit was missing:
http://kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=24394
Comment 6 Maciej Pilichowski 2008-03-29 15:47:03 UTC
"Counterpart" wish-report:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160062