Re: Pluggable widgets II

[Tim Janik <timj imendio com>]

On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Mark McLoughlin wrote:

> On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 15:04 +0100, Tim Janik wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 Dec 2006, Mark McLoughlin wrote:
>
> > > 	With this API the vendor would need to have a gtk module or library
> > > especially for the gnome-panel in order to appoint a new implementation
> > > of PanelMenu.
> >
> > if he *only* means to change the panel menu yes. if all menus should have
> > the logo, all apps will need the module/library.
>
> 	PanelMenu is a GtkMenu sub-class used by stock gnome-panel.
>
> 	Platform vendor Foo implements FooGtkMenu and - via the "foogtk" gtk
> module which is loaded by all applications - it appoints FooGtkMenu for
> GtkMenu.
>
> 	Foo quickly notices that gnome-panel is not using the customised
> GtkMenu implementation. Vendor Foo must then implement a "foopanel" gtk
> module which appoints FooPanelMenu for PanelMenu and ensure that this
> module is only loaded by gnome-panel.

unless the customizations can be backfolded as general theming improvements
into a theme engine or as new menu/style properties into stock gtk+, yes.

> 	My point is that Foo would prefer if PanelMenu could automatically
> sub-class FooGtkMenu rather than GtkMenu.

with Gtk+ and its object system, that is simply not technically possible.

> Cheers,
> Mark.

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ciaoTJ