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Created attachment 908108 [details]
Replacement for window-dragging patch

Description of problem:

When a tearoff menu is torn off it isn't possible to activate menu items (other than submenus) using the mouse.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

2.20.1-4

How reproducible:

Always present


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install Bluefish from EPEL on RHEL 6.5
2. Tear off a menu
3. Try to activate a menu item using the mouse

Actual results:

Menu items in torn off menus can only be activated using the keyboard, not the mouse.


Expected results:

Menus should work the same way whether or not they're torn off.


Additional info:

This problem was first reported as a Bluefish bug (GNOME Bugzilla 620984) and subsequently as a GTK bug (Red Hat Bugzilla 603717 and GNOME Bugzilla 627511).

The bug was introduced in GTK commit 7491e9e 'Allow windows to be dragged by clicking on empty areas' on the 2.90 branch.  Fedora have been carrying this as a patch to GTK 2 (window-dragging.patch) from F13 to current.

The problem was introduced into RHEL with the 6.5 update when GTK 2.18.9 was replaced by 2.20.1.  RHEL has the same faulty patch as Fedora.

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