Suppose you have a popup menu that drops down from the menu bar and this popup has a list of items to be checked or unchecked. Further suppose that the typical user has to check/uncheck 5 items before doing something else. Isn't this a common scenario?

Normally, doing this will take 10 mouse clicks because, after clicking each item, the popup disappears and the user will have to click on the menu bar to have the same popup reappear over and over again. If the user wants to make certain of the last entry, that takes one more click for a total of 11 clicks. You don't have to be an ergonomic genius to figure out that this would only take 6 mouse clicks if the popup didn't disappear.

So, why am I the only one interested in preventing popups from disappearing when items are checked/unchecked? Are programmers ergonomically retarded?

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