[haiku-development] Re: [Haiku-commits] r21394 - in haiku/trunk: headers/os/interface src/kits/interface

  • From: Stephan Assmus <superstippi@xxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:17:59 +0200

Marcus Overhagen wrote (2007-06-14, 13:51:59 [+0200]):
> Stephan Assmus wrote:
> 
> > Stefano Ceccherini wrote (2007-06-14, 10:28:47 [+0200]):
> > > 2007/6/14, Chris Peel <chris.gsi@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > > > more.  Also, I really think that having a short-cut _and_ submenu
> > > > indicator in the same menu item is mutually exclusive.
> > > 
> > > I'd agree with you, but since the OS lets you have both, I think we
> > > should also handle this case gracefully (i.e. not like beos).
> > 
> > To be fair, the API does not exactly lead you to believe this was 
> > intended.
> > 
> > It could be argued, that one has to resort to tricks to even do that. :-)
> 
> I agree with Chris and think that having a short-cut to a submenu
> isn't required, although we have one use case in DiskProbe.
> 
> Perhaps it would be the easiest solution to ignore (neither display, nor 
> register)
> the shortcut assigned to a item that has submenus.

This would break a couple of applications. But with our own apps, we should 
separate a menu entry from the submenu:

 Open Recent ->
 Open...

Best regards,
-Stephan


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