GNU bug report logs - #64440
30.0.50; [PATCH] Highlight on non toolkit menu bar items

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From: Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: stefankangas <at> gmail.com, manuel <at> ledu-giraud.fr, 64440 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#64440: 30.0.50; [PATCH] Highlight on non toolkit menu bar items
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:19:58 +0800

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

> Why?  In a GUI build, hovering the mouse above the menu bar causes the
> buttons to react, at least here on MS-Windows.

No X toolkit does: GTK, Lucid, Motif, among others.

> And how is this different from, say, mouse-highlight of the mode line
> or tool bar?

I don't find the latter distracting, but I do when the highlight is on
the menu bar.  Please, let's not argue over this, when the alternative
is to introduce what is at the maximum 10 lines of straightforward code.

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