[Sugar-devel] RFC: Kill the delayed menus for good

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 4:42 PM, Michael Stone <michael at laptop.org> wrote:
> Simon wrote:
>
>> On 10/13/2009 04:36 AM, Bernie Innocenti wrote:
>>  I'm loving how the menus suddenly are now snappy and responsive.
>>
>>  From: Michael Stone ...
>>  Subject: Make various palette animations happen more quickly.
>>  ...
>>
>> Can you describe what the patch will change from the user point of
>> view?
>
> Of course I can. In fact, I believe that Bernie and I already did, in
> the lines of your message that I quoted above. Do you actually find
> these lines to be obscure?
>
> (I inquire most particularly because I'm nearly certain that you could
> have learned the user-visible effect of the patch more quickly and
> more easily by trying out the change yourself than by asking. Maybe you
> had a more complex goal in mind than simply learning the nature of the
> user-visible change which justifies the additional delay and round-trips
> that your request incurs?)
>
>> Is this to get rid of the delayed build up of palettes when hovering
>> over icons?
>
> Yes, this is the purpose of setting the length of the build-up animation
> to be 0.0 seconds.
>
>> The delay is on purpose.
>
> Of course it is. Unfortunately, that does not make it good.
>
> Now, after trying out the patched version vs. the unpatched version, do
> you actually find that you prefer the current behavior?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Michael
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Can the delay of showing the right-click menu be user configurable via
control panel just like the frame sensitivity? I've seen both use
cases: right click and hover to access the menu.

Sameer