[Bug 160062] New: keep the direction of opening submenus

[Maciej Pilichowski]

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           Summary: keep the direction of opening submenus
           Product: kdelibs
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdelibs-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: bluedzins wp pl


Version:            (using KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs

There is an tiny bug in current behaviour, but since fix is trivial and does not solve the problem (but bug only) I am posting this as a wish-report.

Partially, this report is anti-duplicate :-) of:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107592

Currently menus are opened on the right or left, according to spare space on the screen. Visually for me it is not a big problem (yet, a problem) but for older people, and I guess some kind of disabilities (mental, or vision impaired people) this is real problem. As I observed, they stop working, and stare at the monitor _when_ ("the hell") the submenu appears -- they don't notice the menu already appeared but not in place KDE suggests.

The closer you sit to your monitor, the bigger the monitor, and the resolution is lower, the more apparent the problem is.


The wish is simply:
Keep the direction of menu opening the same in whole KDE, also suggest the direction correctly. If it arrow shows "right" do not show menu on left (but I don't suggest changing arrows direction on fly).

Now, how to solve this if there is no place to show the submenu? My suggestions:
a) move entire menu to the opposite direction
b) move the entire screen to the opposite direction (add "screen" on the fly)
c) allow menus to overlap (it already happens) with each step, not when the problems arise
d) two column panned menus (only--configurable) -- previous menu on the left, current menu on the right (a bit better than current KMenu from Novell, or Kickoff it is called I believe)