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Type: Suggestion
Resolution: Done
Priority: P2: Important
Fix Version/s: None
Affects Version/s: 5.13.1
Component/s: Quick: Controls 2
Labels:
- qtquickcontrols2-desktop

Platform/s:

Linux/X11
Commits:
62965b67a (dev), 78c6fb4cb (6.5)

Description

A menu using MenuBar opens only once the mouse is clicked and released on the menu item. This can feel a bit sluggish, especially if the menu takes a bit of time to show up as it tends to the first time it is opened. It would be better if a menu opened as soon as the mouse is pressed. This is how menus in almost all desktop applications behave.

MenuBar also does not support press-hold-release usage, which is common in many applications/toolkits, and is almost universal on Linux. This means that menus can be used like this:

Press and hold the mouse button while the pointer is one of the menu bar items. The menu appears immediately.
Navigate to the desired menu item and release the button. The item is activated and the menu disappears.

QML example:

import QtQuick
import QtQuick.Controls

ApplicationWindow {
    id: window
    width: 640
    height: 480
    visible: true

    menuBar: MenuBar {
        Menu {
            title: "&File"

            MenuItem {
                text: "New"
            }
            MenuItem {
                text: "Open"
            }
            MenuItem {
                text: "Save"
            }
        }
    }
}

Widgets example:


#include <QtWidgets>

int main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
    QApplication app(argc, argv);

    QMainWindow mainWindow;

    QWidget *centralWidget = new QWidget;

    QMenu *menu = new QMenu("&File", centralWidget);
    menu->addAction("New");
    menu->addAction("Open");
    menu->addAction("Save");
    mainWindow.menuBar()->addMenu(menu);

    mainWindow.setCentralWidget(centralWidget);

    mainWindow.resize(400, 400);
    mainWindow.show();

    return app.exec();
}