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essdeeay

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Monday, March 27th 2006, 1:51pm

How do you set menu delay in KDE?

Hello

Is it possible to set a menu delay in KDE, similar to Windows? It's very difficult to click on something from the KDE menu, then move the mouse right to click on a sub-menu without wandering off the horizontal, resulting in the wrong sub-menu.

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Steve :)

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Monday, April 3rd 2006, 1:15am

I really think we should change those pop-up menus with someting more inteligent, it's so nasty to have one menu that leads to another an so on, you miss one the road, you have to go back. On the kmenu I only have 2 levels and other 2 levels for the debian menu, but that is already enough, miss one, go back. I hate even more those toggle options (you navigate all the way to them just to click one option, when it has other 4-5 like it and you want those too (this is not a really a kde fault, though konqueror has them a lot, it is OO.o and gimp that have those things).
One thing to to would be to make the menu like a fast konqueror instance that dissapears when the program is clicked. I have to speak to those interface designers.
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Thursday, April 6th 2006, 9:38pm

RE: How do you set menu delay in KDE?

Sometimes I swear to those submenus just because of the problem you described. I think the arrow buttons on your keyboard make those submenus more usable.
Bram Schoenmakers
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Thursday, April 6th 2006, 10:53pm

Just trying to keep the thread on track still... Windows seems to have a 0.5sec delay before it will automatically open a submenu if you just move over it... which makes it easy to navigate them without the submenus constantly switching. All in all, very useable. Surely KDE must have an option for this - it's got everything else!

Steve :)

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Sunday, April 9th 2006, 11:13am

This is more a problem with Qt's toolkit than a KDE problem. It may be fixed in Qt4 though, but I haven't checked that.
Bram Schoenmakers
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Saturday, September 2nd 2006, 5:23am

RE: How do you set menu delay in KDE?

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Originally posted by bram85
Sometimes I swear to those submenus just because of the problem you described. I think the arrow buttons on your keyboard make those submenus more usable.
Thanks for that. A usable workaround is better than nothing. Thanks again.

JD