Add some visual feedback when hover mouse over menubar

[Fred]

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Add some (subtle) visual feedback that appears when you hover the mouse over a menu in the menubar.

I think this would improve usability, and make the system feel more responsive.

[SethWoodworth (seth-woodworth)]

I'm not convinced of it's utility. I, for one, am bothered by too much UI interaction as I move my mouse around.

Perhaps an option tab with several such options for those who would prefer them. Such as auto expand on mouse over, and an opacity change on mouse over (handy when you change your background to something dark and your menu is transparent)

[Fred (eldmannen+launchpad)]

KDE does this. Windows does this.
Not sure about Mac OS X.

So when I used Ubuntu, I thought it was strange that there were no visual feedback.

[thorwil (t-w-)]

Bug 340203 - [patch] Support "prelight state" in menu bars and notebooks. (with patch files):
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=340203

Buttons, icons, check boxes, radio buttons, scrollbars, sliders ... all have prelight. Entries are an exception (shouldn't be), but there you see a change of the mouse cursor. It's simply inconsistent to not have prelight on menus (and tabs).

With a unified title-menu-bar, where you can drag to move the window on every area that is not a window button or menu, it would be good to make it clear if the pointer is in the menu area before a click!

[Vish (vish)]

As thorwil points out , this needs fixing in gtk first.