Opened 10 years ago
Last modified 10 years ago
#44999 new defect
limit Qt4's menu item placement guessing and the damages it can cause
| Reported by: | RJVB (René Bertin) | Owned by: | michaelld (Michael Dickens) |
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| Priority: | Normal | Milestone: | |
| Component: | ports | Version: | |
| Keywords: | haspatch | Cc: | mkae (Marko Käning) |
| Port: | qt4-mac |
Description
Users of Qt and esp. KDE applications will have noticed certain irregularities in the Application menu About and Preferences items of these applications, which often do not invoke the expected action, sometimes even a completely unrelated one (as with KDevelop).
A full discussion of the issue is in this upstream bugreport: https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-41351
Attached is a patch which removes the guesses Qt makes about which of an applications menu items should be moved to the Application menu. This may make applications (that rely on that guesswork) less "Mac like", but otherwise improves their functioning ("function over form"). It also paves the way to easier changes to individual applications to get the right menu items installed under About and Preferences (because those menu items are no longer occupied automatically, something that cannot be undone nor prevented easily).
Attachments (1)
Change History (3)
Changed 10 years ago by RJVB (René Bertin)
| Attachment: | qt4-deactivate-menurole-heuristics.patch added |
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comment:1 Changed 10 years ago by mf2k (Frank Schima)
| Cc: | michaelld@… removed |
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| Owner: | changed from macports-tickets@… to michaelld@… |
comment:2 Changed 10 years ago by mkae (Marko Käning)
| Cc: | mk@… added |
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