Title bar/menu problem on 14.04

[Colin Law]

On 10 February 2016 at 17:25, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 02/10/2016 12:27 AM, Karl Auer wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 17:20 -0600, Jim Byrnes wrote:
>>>
>>> I find it odd that more people are not seeing this. I have to believe
>>> that many other people have put the menus back in the titlebar. There
>>> was one other person commented in this thread about having the same
>>> problem with another program. I asked him to confirm if he was seeing it
>>> with Firefox, but never received a reply.
>>
>>
>> I have menus in the title bar. I find it natural and good that if I
>> click and hold anywhere in the title bar, even on a menu item, the
>> result is a hand icon and I can drag the window around. If I click (not
>> hold) on a menu item in the title bar, the menu item drops down. Very,
>> very occasionally I will "click slowly" on a menu item and the menu item
>> will not open because the system thinks I want to drag the window.
>> Usually this happens because my fingers are not positioned properly on
>> the mouse.
>>
>> Sorry, I've not been paying attention to the discussion, but the
>> behaviour I described is how it is supposed to work when menus are in
>> the title bars, and it works in every windowed program I have ever used
>> (including Firefox).
>>
>> Just ignore me if I've missed the point.
>>
>> Regards, K.
>>
>
> No you did not miss the point, that is exactly what I have been discussing.
> Though I don't believe it is natural or good.
>
> I only see this behavior in Firefox,Thunderbird and Libreoffice. To get a
> menu to drop down I must click and release the mouse button very rapidly. If
> I don't the pointer changes into a hand and even though I am over a menu I
> can drag the window around the screen.  I don't think this is proper
> behavior. I would think over a menu the action would be to drop down the
> menu and nothing else. If I open the terminal, gedit the software center and
> others they do not act that way.  On them I can hold the button down
> indefinitely and it remains a pointer and I cannot drag the window.

Well that is also very odd, I see identical behaviour in gedit and FF.
If I hold the mouse down it changes to a hand after about 1/3 sec.
Just to confirm, you see this when booting from a live CD on two
machines, just by using Settings > Appearance > behaviour to show the
menus in the title bar?  Very odd indeed, even odder than the symtom
of changing to a hand quickly which could be due to a mouse problem.

Colin