Re: Drop-down menus, popup menus, and popup dialogs supported on TTYs

[Masatake YAMATO]

>>> I tried it already, but I saw that the old tmm menu is shown, instead
>>> of the new drop-down menu.  Why?
>>
>> That's what Masatake suggested, and everybody else agreed.
> 
> I interpreted Masatake's suggestion as "if menu-bar-mode is off, make
> F10 show the _menu_ temporarily", while _menu_ would obviously refer
> to the new drop-down menu, which is supposed to replace to the old tmm
> menu.

If menu-bar-mode is off, making F10 show the drop-down menu temporarily
(or on-demand) is nice. However, I know how difficult(for me) to
implement such behavior because I tried it once for X11[1]. So I
prepared the patch using tmm as temporarily solution; and I installed 
the patch.

What we (you and I) want is Gregor Zattler suggested at [1].  However,
I didn't installed it to the official tree because, it is not my patch
and the expect behavior of on-demand drop-down menu is not discussed
enough. As far as reading your post you may have much detailed but 
important requests about the behavior.

Eli, in my interpretation, you don't object to introduce on-demand 
drop-down menu. However, you yourself doen't want it. Right?


[1] The last comment at
    http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2012-07/msg00415.html
[2] http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2013-10/msg00281.html


Masatake YAMATO

> BTW: I think that F10 should also close a tmm menu if there is one
> open (currently it does nothing in that situation).
> 
> -- 
> Dani Moncayo