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[Jonathan Meek <shrouded.cloud@xxxxxxxxx>]

You're absolutely right it seems, I apologize. It seems that it's just a bit
too sensitive for my clicking behaviors and would close quickly making me
think that it acted differently. And will subscribe to that bug. Thanks.

On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 5:58 AM, Matthew Paul Thomas <mpt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

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> Jonathan Meek wrote on 07/04/11 03:22:
> >...
> > An example: Go to Power Management preferences and click the combobox
> > for action to take on laptop lid closing, a menu will appear and you
> > can choose an item at your leisure. Now, go run CCSM and go to the
> > Unity plugin's settings, click on the combobox for hide behavior and it
> > appears nothing happens. The two boxes look the same, but for one, you
> > have to seemingly arbitrarily click and hold the combobox to select
> > items and the other you don't. An even better example, I see THREE
> > different comboboxes used in the Software Sources dialog: 1) In the
> > Ubuntu Software tab, a click and hold combobox. 2)In the Updates tab a
> > combobox that you can type in for some reason.(The Check for updates
> > one) 3) Below that in the Updates tab as well, a combobox with the
> > "correct behavior. (The Release upgrade combobox)
> >...
>
> A radio menu, or option menu, lets you choose one of several choices,
> and displays the current choice in the closed menu. It's the menu
> equivalent of a set of radio buttons.
>
> A combo box is a combination of a text field and a radio menu, and
> displays the current choice in the text field.
>
> Windows calls a radio menu a "drop-down list", while Mac OS X calls it a
> "pop-up menu". GTK mistakenly calls it a "combo box", and then calls an
> actual combo box a "combo box entry".
>
> In both Ambiance and Radiance, I see no difference in appearance or
> behavior between the Power Management Preferences "When laptop lid is
> closed" menu, the CCSM Unity "Hide Launcher" menu, and the Software
> Sources "Download from" and "Show new distribution releases" menus. If
> you still see a difference, perhaps you could publish a screencast
> somewhere demonstrating it?
>
> The "Check for updates" menu is a combo box, and should not be. Someone
> has just reported this bug. <http://launchpad.net/bugs/750507>
>
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