Some time ago, Hrvoje Niksic wrote... |+ | SL Baur <steve(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: | | > I see another bug that was _not_ present with 20.4. Why are grayed | > out menu items selectable (or drawn with three shading) just like | > selectable items? | | That's a feature. | | I think Glynn originally introduced it for keyboard menu traversal, | but it doesn't look too ugly (to me) to make them mouse-selectable | too, so it stayed. |- In Windows interface, it is common to display an explanatory string in the status area when a menu item is selected. Some X programs also do that; although, when grayed out items are made unselectable, there is no way to read that prompt. It has been always making me angry when I saw "Frobnicate / Grok" menu item, which was grayed out, and I could not even get a clue to figure out what does it do when it is in any other color... We currently do not have such prompts (btw, why?), but this feature would be absolutely required if we did. Kirill