Version: (using KDE KDE 3.0.3) Installed from: Mandrake RPMs I think you should add this option: "menu show delay" (choose an interval after which the menu entries shoud expand when moving the mouse arrow I make an example: kde menu -> networking (wait 0.1 seconds before expanding the tree) -> file transfer (wait 0.1 seconds before expanding the tree) I hope that this is clear this would make navigating throug the entries in the menu much more ''fluid'', customized to the behaviour of each person kde is great thanks
Sorry, this sounds like useless configurability to me.
I certainly do not agree with this being 'useless'. Example: I want to save a file in Kate. I click File and then move my mouse pointer to Save But, before I reach Save, the mouse will hover on the Recently opened submenu. This submenu will open *immediately*. Since there are some long filenames/paths, this menu will cover the rest of the File menu, including the Save option. If there would be a small configurable delay, then my mouse pointer would reach the Save menu item before the Recently opened submenu would open (and cover the Save menu item). Conclusion: this is not a "useless configurability", but a usability option that some or many users may need. Setting a small default delay may also be an option.
i think this is really similiar to my bug 130623 ... is an interface-issue and not useless .. in fact the default "widget-spawn-time" is useless for handycapped people how are not champions with the pointer device .. and anyway i am not handycapped :-IMO) , and it spawns much too fast .. but a setting would affect both, menu and filebrowsing .. i have no problems whith the speed when i navigate in menus, but for the filesystem-browsing via a "quickview"-button its pain in the *$$ to navigate deep folder-structures regards
*** Bug 130623 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
commented in http://www.kde-forum.org/thread.php?threadid=15017
http://www.kde-forum.org/thread.php?postid=58925#post58925 so i am not alone with this , please keep it unresolved
The menu show delay is a clear, atomic option and those are generally nice to provide. People like to tweak them, and too often one size does not fit all. Besides, the code to enable that would be trivial. Being a fringe option, though, it should be buried deep in the style kcm imho. Reopening.
Kicker is currently unmaintained, you can look to your distribution for help, however.
This is still a problem. Should I use two hands on the mouse so that I move perfectly in the "correct" direction, instead of moving diagonally, because we cannot have a 0.1 second delay here? This frustrates me dozens of times ever single day. It's been 10 years. Time to fix this.