[UI] Squeak's Menus (was: Re: [UI] Squeak's Menus Are Excellent/Awful)

[Brad Fuller]

On Tue September 18 2007, Blake wrote:
> I have problems with the menus, too. Not picking them up, but I do have
> two recurring problems:
>
> 1. They lose mouse-over sensitivity. What that means is that you end up
> with menus that don't track the mouse when it's over them. You can't pick
> a sub-menu when that happens, and if you pick a command the results can be
> surprising.
>
> 2. Trying to navigate to a sub-menu can result in all the menus vanishing.
> I've had this happen a lot with making new morphs from the new morph menu.

I have that too and it's annoying. you have to start the menu over again.

>
> So, to phrase it diplomatically, "Overall Squeak's menus are nicely
> streamlined, but some aspects are problematic."

nicely put.