GNU bug report logs - #58406
29.0.50; Bars refactoring?

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Message #26 received at 58406 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 58406 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr
Subject: Re: bug#58406: 29.0.50; Bars refactoring?
Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 18:05:08 +0800

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> Cc: 58406 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 16:51:40 +0800
>> From:  Po Lu via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs,
>>  the Swiss army knife of text editors" <bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org>
>> 
>> Most people do not use the bars, leading to many latent bugs.
>> Examples: mouse face not being cleared when tooltips are enabled and
>> the mouse moves outside the frame, last_tool_bar_item not being
>> cleared in the same case, and last_tab_bar_item not being cleared,
>> leading to mouse highlight not working after the mouse is released
>> outside a frame.
>
> I do use the bars, and I don't think I see any of the above problems.
> How would one notice them?

One of the problems (which was fixed earlier this summer) could be
reproduced by holding Alt-TAB (or waiting for a focus to steal the
focus) with the mouse held down on a tab or tool bar button.

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