KDE - menu delay
 

Is there a way to adjust the delay between the time your mouse pointer begins to hover over a menu item and the time a sub menu deploys?

TIA

You can click it if you want it to appear faster.

How can it be adjusted? I'd like to increase the time.

Yes, that's what I was looking for also, I'd like to delay the opening of sub menus.

I've run a search of ~ for the following:

mouse
click
menu
delay

And I have not found any attributes which would be relevant.

i dont know for sure but that sounds like menu animation, you should be able to adjust that in "look & feel" in kcontrol (control center)...

That didn't do it.

Well to be fair this wasn't all too adjustable in windows either until the "TweakUI" powertoys came out.

That's what we need in KDE, a TweakUI!

To be fair to Windows, it was easy to find (a registry key) plus the context menu didn't have extremely nested menuitems.

I knew exactly where you were coming from when you started the thread, nelamvr6, and since upgrading to SuSE 10 I've been getting frustrated with the menu speeds myself.

Take for example konqueror

I have a directory /home/kim/Downloads/[...many directories...]/stuff and /home/kim/torrents/[...many directories...]/stuff

I am sorting through old package downloads in ~/Downloads and moving them temporarily to /mnt/bigDisk/software/Linux-Software and /mnt/bigDisk/software/windows/OpenSource/

So, right-clicking in konqueror, going through the [move to] menu, and then navigating that way is a royal PITA unless I move REALLY fast throught the menus when I do move. A 250ms to 300ms delay would be perfect, but by default the delay seems to be 50ms to 100ms, which is ridiculously fast. I navigate menus quickly when doing that kind of housecleaning, but selecting the wrong menuitem can be a pain in the neck.

Other apps are equally annoying. Take the kopete system tray icon context menu - when leaving I generally sign off, so when I go through the status menu it is all too easy to hover over "away" for just a split second too long, so I cannot select offline. What I have to do in that case is back out of the menu and go back into it. A pain in the neck. In Windows I generally had the opposite problem - I wanted the menus to be slightly faster than it comes out of the box.

Hey, I had my windows menus set to infinite delay! I didn't wan't t to see sub-menus unless I clicked on something!

Well, I'm sure it must be adjustable, it's just a matter of time before someone figures it out. I'm pretty sure it won't be me. I'm having fun learning, but I'm by no means a guru....yet! :p