Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >   That could also become annoying if you are accustomed to click + drag a
> > certain amount + release, to select an option you use a lot.

> Sure, I suppose. I find that kind of menu always has my mouse sliding 
> off the edge of the desk, tho, when I'm doing something repetitive. I 
> guess if you're used to one way of working, another is going to annoy 
> one until one gets used to it.  Sounds like you have better mousing 
> precision than I do. :-)

  Not that much.

  There's another very annoying feature which, as far as I remember, they
changed in Windows95 (or Windows98) compared to Windows 3.x: In the latter,
if you had a menu with a submenu, you would click on the menu element for
that submenu, and then it would open the submenu to be on the side of the
parent menu and, most importantly, it would *keep it open* until you select
something or click somewhere else.

  In Win95 (or something) they changed this behavior to be much, much worse:
Now the submenu opens by simply hovering the menu element (not that bad in
itself) but if you unhover that element, it *closed* the submenu. There's
no way you can keep the submenu open other then carefully keeping the mouse
hovered on that parent menu element while you move it towards the submenu.
This is extremely annoying and irritating because it requires really precise
mouse handling to not to unhover and thus unintentionally close the submenu.
It can be difficult even to me, an experienced computer user. I can only
imagine how difficult it must be eg. for the elderly or people with
impariments.

  The worst of all? Everybody has copied Microsoft on this! Now you can see
that braindead behavior everywhere. Even this KDE has it. It's annoying!

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                                                          - Warp

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