GNU bug report logs - #57522
29.0.50; Fix submenu indicator on X11 no toolkit

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Message #11 received at 57522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
Cc: 57522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr
Subject: Re: bug#57522: 29.0.50; Fix submenu indicator on X11 no toolkit
Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 09:33:54 +0300

> Cc: 57522 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 02 Sep 2022 09:16:48 +0800
> From:  Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
> 
> Manuel Giraud <manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr> writes:
> 
> > Here is a patch that make the submenu indicator " >" appear with X11
> > no-toolkit.
> 
> That isn't how submenus are supposed to work in the oldXMenu library.
> Each submenu is actually a "pane"; you can click on an item in one pane,
> which activates the next pane.  An arrow indicator doesn't make sense,
> since the next pane will not be activated where the indicator points to.

How is this different from what happens with menus on TTY frames?

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