Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] 0.10.3 possible bug - tool bar

[Richard Urwin <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 09 Apr 2004 8:50 am, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Stuart MacDonald wrote:
> >Ethereal: 0.10.3
> >Interface: GTK2
> >OS: Windows XP
> >
> >This is probably in GTK2, but I don't know for sure.
> >
> >- right click a packet in the packet list so the context menu
> > appears - change your mind and left click a toolbar button
> >
> >Now, GUIs have seemed to have one of two ways of dealing with this.
> >1: The first left click merely dismisses the context menu, and is
> > not passed on to the toolbar button underneath. You are required to
> > click a second time to activate the button.
> >2: The first left click dismisses the menu *and* activates the
> > button.
> >
> >Ethereal takes a third method:
> >
> >3: Left click dismisses context menu. All subsequent clicks fail to
> >activate button, *until* mouse is moved off-button and back
> > on-button.
>
> I've noticed this on some other widgets too, not only the toolbar.
>
> Again, this is one of the GTK topics, I don't know what to do
> against.
>
> We might want to send this to the GTK people, and see what they can
> do and if they know this already and maybe even working on it.
>
> Do people on the other platforms (e.g. linux) notice the same
> problem, or is this win32 specific?

Linux takes option 1.
GTK2.2.4, Glib 2.2.3, ethereal 0.10.0a

-- 
Richard Urwin