RE: Storing accelerators in a rc file

[Bernie Maier <Bernie Maier bullant com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Havoc Pennington [mailto:hp@redhat.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 4:05 AM

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> GTK 2 still recommends the item factory. GTK 2.2 or GTK 3 may have an
> additional menu API alongside the item factory, but item factory will
> still exist for the forseeable future. So I wouldn't feel bad about
> using it, it's generally more convenient than making menus manually,
> though it has some aspects that could be better.

Yes!  Like, for example, it would be nice if you could escape forward
slashes so that menu items could contain forward slashes, e.g. for URLs.