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Bug report - menu bar still active in hidden state (Announce)

posted by nidud E-mail, Norway, 10.08.2010, 19:07

> Hello,
>
> after suppressing the menu bar, DZ still will popup the file menu when I
> press Alt-F. IMO this is an error - at least a design flaw. I'd like to
> suggest to disable this behavior and search another way to navigate to the
> menu items. VC does it pretty good: If you press and release ALT, the menu
> bar becomes temporarily unhidden.
The Alt-key was used to activate the menus before but this was not a good idea if used in Windows (using Alt-Tab/..), so I removed this option. If implemented as VC you also need to overlay the panels with a new menu bar and a separate event handler for this case. Since the option of hiding the menu bar/status line/command line is added recently, the code to handle this will be rather extensive. Well, something should be done to handle this, but I?m currently out of ideas on how.

> Another thing, which is not a bug, but a feature what I miss: a fast way to
> navigate through very large file lists in the panel. If there are 3000
> files in the current directory and I want to position to the first whose
> name starts with "mx", then DZ only offers the rather limited SEARCH dialog
> to assist me.
It is possible to limit the number of files in the panel by typing mx*.* in the panel filter dialog, but Ctrl+Alt+m+x will be the fastest way to do this. Trying to find the 'config.nt' file in the system32 directory using Quick search, you need to type 'config.' to bypass the config directory, so it could probably be a good idea to skip searching directories?

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