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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!
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