Panel problem in 4.0.4

[Jasper Huijsmans]

On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 12:54:08PM +0200, Vallo Kallaste wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 11:35:29AM +0100, Jasper Huijsmans
> <jasper at xfce.org> wrote:
> 
> > > I would like to add that sometimes panel (mine's vertical) will not
> > > hide until clicked on, seems to be focus problem or somesuch.
> > > Perhaps related to particular application, don't know yet for sure.
> > > KDE, which I used before, didn't have this problem. I'm not
> > > promoting KDE, it has own (bigger) problems.
> > 
> > This can happen if you use one of the right-click menus on the panel.
> > Because the menu takes focus, the panel doesn't 'see' the mouse leaving
> > and that's why it doesn't hide. Moving the mouse over the panel should
> > be enough to make it hide again.
> 
> Yes, it's consistent behaviour. The idea about application causing
> it came probably because it happened at the time I tweaked panel and
> added Acroread launcher. Thanks for explaining.
> You kindly answered my question, mind you another one?
> The first question I had in this list was about panel menu(s)
> behaviour. It takes several mouse clicks (press/release) events to
> launch an item from a menu. I'm interested doing it with less
> clicks:
> 1) point to menu handle
> 2) click to menu handle to open menu and hold the button
> 3) point to menu item to be launched
> 4) release button, the item will be launched and menu closed
> 
> Is it configuration thing or can it be done some other way?
> 

This is not possible now.