Issue 47982 - Options->Openoffice.org->View->Menu follows mouse pointer MISSING
Summary: Options->Openoffice.org->View->Menu follows mouse pointer MISSING
Status: CLOSED WONT_FIX
Alias: None
Product: General
Classification: Code
Component: ui (show other issues)
Version: OOo 2.0 Beta
Hardware: All Linux, all
: P3 Trivial (vote)
Target Milestone: AOO Later
Assignee: frank.loehmann
QA Contact: issues@framework
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Keywords: accessibility, oooqa
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2005-04-22 18:04 UTC by mge1512
Modified: 2005-11-14 08:33 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Issue Type: ENHANCEMENT
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Description mge1512 2005-04-22 18:04:39 UTC 
This feature is heavily required e.g. on notebooks,
where you have to deal with "Trackpoints" and "Touchpads":-(
it is/was included in OpenOffice.org all 1.1.x so far.

Thanks in advance

so short 
MgE

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Voluminous documentation is part of the problem not part of the solution
Comment 1 flibby05 2005-04-23 21:06:41 UTC 
defect -> enhancement
Comment 2 stefan.baltzer 2005-04-25 11:20:47 UTC 
SBA->mge1512: Please don't attach your e-mail footer in issue descriptions.
The're part of the problem and not the solution :-)

SBA: The feature to switch OFF "Menu follows mouse pointer" has been removed for
OOo 2.0. The current behavior is that the menu is following the mouse, same as
the default was in OOo 1.1.4.

SBA->mge1512: Is it correct that you ask for the option to switch this OFF? 
Please comment.

SBA->MMP: As discussed, please proceed.
Component set to "Framework". Reassigned to MMP.
Comment 3 mge1512 2005-04-25 15:50:30 UTC 
mge->SBA: sorry for the footer
mge->SBA: yes, "Menu follows mouse pointer" IMHO is one of the worst things
regarding usability: makes OOo 2.0 nearly unusable on my notebook: please think
of people using "trackpoints" (me) or suffering from disabilities (not me, but ...).
mge->maxweber: this is not an enhancement, since it was there in OOo 1.1.4

so short MgE
Comment 4 matthias.mueller-prove 2005-04-25 16:08:18 UTC 
>> forward to Frank Loehmann, our accessibility expert in User Experience;
BTW I suppose it was Christian Jansen who made the change from OOo1.1 to OOo2.0.
Comment 5 mge1512 2005-08-17 01:29:59 UTC 
Any news on that? 
TIA
   MgE
Comment 6 dankegel 2005-10-28 05:44:59 UTC 
Setting keyword "accessibility"
Comment 7 frank.loehmann 2005-10-31 16:54:59 UTC 
Most times the menu width was too wide (i.e. the File menu and especially the
File - New entries) when this could have become a problem, because the delay
before the menu follows the mouse pointer, if a menu is open, is about half a
second. But OOo 2.0 has introduced a new "Recent Documents" entry for the File
menu, so that the width of that menu is now _much_ smaller and fixed.
Furthermore this issue becomes no problem at all when using the keyboard, what
is a much more important aspect for accessibility. Since this never had been an
accessibility option and the current behavior conforms to the operating system
guide lines, I propose not to handle this as an accessibility issue.
Comment 8 frank.loehmann 2005-11-14 08:33:16 UTC 
FL: Closed, since there were no further comments added.