#9 retain hover over style highlighting on parent menu

[Oliver Schonrock]

It might be useful from a ui perspective to provide an
option that will have the following effect:

In a horizontal or vertical layersmenu, when the user
hovers over the top level menu item and then moves his
mouse to display a submenu, the highlighting on the top
level menu item remains. Same for when moving from
level 2 to level 3.

Advantage would be that the users can more easily see
how they got to where they are.

Currently the hightlighting disappears as soon as the
submenu is displayed, because it is done with a:hover css
style. Doing the above would require further javascript to
change the style of the parent menu item when the
submenu is displayed and then to reset it when the
submenu is hidden again.

This would mimick more closely what people are used to
from fat client GUIs.

Anyone agree this would be useful?

Oliver

[Marco Pratesi]

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I fear that this feature cannot be implemented without
rethinking
some things: currently, the background color change of the item
under the mouse pointer is obtained through the CSS:

layersmenu-gtk2.css
...
.item a:hover {
color: #ffffff;
background-color: #4b6983;
}
...

No implementation of your request comes to my mind
with this approach...

Marco Pratesi

[Alan Sparkes]

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Yes it would be very useful - in fact essential for context help
in a vertical menu system.