Re: new Customize menu

["M . Thielker" <balsa t-data com>]

Hi,

On 2001.07.17 12:26 Carlos Morgado wrote:
> 
> > 
> it's a gtk "widget" that builds menus from an array of menu defs
> 
Menu defs that seem overly complicated and probably have side effects that
need to be worked around, or don't provide preview possibilities, or do not
allow on-the-fly construction..... 
If I look at the code that used to be there to construct toolbars, I have a
tendency to start screaming.
Such an ill-designed toolbar-generation interface I have never seen. I mean,
come on, using #define's to reference toolbar items by _position_ in
statically allocated structs... it means, for example, that in
sendmsg-window.c it was necessary to save wiget handles in private
structures, because there is no way to acces a widget handle of window A (a
message window) when window B (another message indow) is open becaue A's
handles get overwritten by B's.....
This really was designed with applications in mind that need only one
instance of a given window open at any given time. As a matter of fact, it
was designed for main window toolbars, no more, no less.
There is no decent API to modify toolbars once they're in place, and I have
not found a safe way to remove a toolbar from a window without leavong the
dock on the window in place.
It actually took over 30 minutes of work to find out how to remove a toolbar
button from an existing toolbar, and another 30 minutes to work around a
gnome bug that turned up in the process.
Thry settinga toolbars style, then adding buttons, you'll find out what I
mean. Apparently, buttons cannot be added to a toolbar once the style is
changed to something other than BOTH icons and labels. The add does not
fail, it's silently ignored!
That, to me, is a bug, a major one.
Toolbar support in gnome is sketchy at best, I prefer the solution we have
now. It's flexible, allows for multiple instances of the same toolbar,
mutilple customizable toolbars in a single window and sharing of toolbar
button across toolbars. What more do you want? Ah, yes, on the fly creation
of toolbars, customization dialog, preview, in-place-update .....
I'd rather use something I know and can modify than something I don't know,
can't modify and I know is buggy.

Cheers,

Melanie