18855 - Menus won't go away unless I select something

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 17108

(Core :: XUL, defect, P3)

Description

[pontus]

Mozilla version M10
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (Linux kernel 2.2)
Window manager: icewm-gnome
glibc version: 2.1.2

When I click on a menu in the menu bar, it appears as expected. However,
the menu does not go away when I move the pointer outside the menu. This means
the only way to get rid of the menu is to select something, which I might not
want.

It sounds unlikely that nobody noticed this before, but when I did a
case-insensitive substring search on bug descriptions with the string "menu",
I couldn't find any entry describing this problem.

Comment 1

[Peter Trudelle]

You can also click outside of the menu to dismiss it.
reassigning to saari.

Comment 2

[saari (gone)]

Incidentally, this is proper behavior on some OSes.

Comment 3

[Claudius Gayle]

I'm not convinced that this behavior is a bug at all. I dont know what user
expectation is for Linux on this but I believe the current behavior is correct
for Mac and Win32. To dismiss a menu, click outside the menu. If we
implement the dismiss onMouseOut then what happens when you use the Alt
key to drop down the menu but then move the mouse which was/is nowhere
near the menu? 4.x behaves the same as Seamonkey currently on ALL platforms
with regard to this issue.
I'm tempted to mark this INVALID, but I'm cc'ing German for a UI consult.

Comment 4

[pontus]

I feel I must clarify a point before you close this bug; on my machine, the
menus won't go away even if I click outside them. I really do have to select one
of the items.

Having to click outside the menus to make them go away would be an expected
behaviour on Linux as well, for example the Gnome UI has this design.

Comment 5

[Matthew Tuck [:CodeMachine]]

Bug #17108?

Comment 6

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

reassigned QA contact to me & updated component.

Comment 7

[Mike Pinkerton (not reading bugmail)]

17108 seems to work, so closing this as a dupe.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17108 ***

Comment 8

[leger]

BULK MOVE: Changing component from XP Menus to XP Toolkit/Widgets: Menus.  XP 
Menus component will be deleted.

Comment 9

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

verifying.

Comment 10

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by ffxbld-merge:
https://hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozilla-beta/rev/a985933b3166
[fenix] Telemetry for https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/18855, https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/18851 and https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/issues/18857