Issue 28179 - Keep mouse ways in menus short when accessing sub menus
Summary: Keep mouse ways in menus short when accessing sub menus
Status: UNCONFIRMED
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Product: ui
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 1.1.1
Hardware: All All
: P5 (lowest) Trivial (vote)
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Reported: 2004-04-21 10:53 UTC by behnel
Modified: 2013-02-07 22:40 UTC (History)
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Description behnel 2004-04-21 10:53:11 UTC 
It is generally a good idea to keep mouse ways short.

Since menu panels open to the right side of the menu button, the way from the
menu button to the sub menus can be relatively long. A special issue is "file"
-> "new" as mentioned in issue 28178 where the mouse moves a long way aside the
other menu buttons and is very likely to accidently leave the panel and open
other menus thus braking the user's work flow.

A possible enhancement could be to add a second sub menu arrow to the left side
of the menu panel (just as the one on the right side). This (preferably
optional) feature would shorten the way to sub menus considerably.

A second solution would be to support tear-off menus, i.e. to place menu panels
within reach of the current work position.
Comment 1 mci 2004-04-21 11:10:55 UTC 
reassigned to bh
Comment 2 rblackeagle 2004-04-21 17:53:16 UTC 
I've noticed this and it IS irritating to have to click in the document then
re-click on the next menu item because the first is hiding it (sometimes several
menu items are hidden).  I have no solution to propose as I recall it was also a
problem with earlier versions of Word. (I have no idea if Word has done
something to fix it.)
Comment 3 ace_dent 2008-05-16 02:13:08 UTC 
OpenOffice.org Issue Tracker - Feedback Request.

The Issue you raised is currently 'Unconfirmed' pending review, but has not been
updated within the last 3 years. Please consider re-testing with one of the
latest versions of OOo, as the problem(s) may have already been addressed.
Either use the recent stable version: http://download.openoffice.org/index.html
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Many thanks,
Andrew
 
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Comment 4 bettina.haberer 2010-05-21 14:53:33 UTC 
To grep the issues easier via "requirements" I put the issues currently lying on
my owner to the owner "requirements".