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From: Kyle Jones <kyle_jones@wonderworks.com>
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Subject: Argh! Menu bug (I think...)
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Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu writes:
 > Scenario: Lucid menus, 20.1-b8.
 > 
 > Problem: If you have cascading menus (such as  used by Custom), if you
 > have a menu that is   cascaded left because it   hits the edge of  the
 > screen, you cannot move  the mouse down off the  sub-menu title -  the
 > menu just disappears and you get whatever menu was *under* it instead.

Menus are unavoidably tedious at this level of indirection.  I
estimate that forty percent of my screen was covered by tiled
menus by the time I reached the the leaf nodes of ... -> Gnus ->
Score -> etc.

There has to be a better way.  Of the preferences interfaces I've seen
for options, I would most want to imitate Netscape's.  Preferences are
grouped and presented in small screenfuls, with tabs at the top to
move to a different group.  Is there some way to get this kind of
breakdown using Custom?  (I'm sorry that I have not yet been able to
experiment enough with Custom to answer this out for myself.)  I know
that using XEmacs UI features it should be possible.  The tabs that
Netscape uses could be done with toolbar buttons or menubar buttons,
for instance.  The rest of it is just button widgets inside a frame,
which Custom already knows how to do.

