Re: Some thoughts about window management

[Mike Hearn <mike navi cx>]

On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 02:15:38 +0300, Yaron Tausky wrote:
> I gimped up a little mockup to show exactly what I mean, as I believe this
> would be a major upgrade to current panel functionality:

Hi,

The mockup is pretty but there are a couple of points to consider:

a) Windows lets you do this, and has done forever, but hardly any apps
   actually use it. It seems few people look in the window menu for 
   functionality.

b) It's hard to implement because (unlike in Windows) menus are not shared
   between processes. So you'd need to define a marshalling format for
   menus and then teach GTK+ to marshal any given menu, and then teach
   the window managers what to do with it. Sounds like a lot of work and
   complexity for relatively little gain.

That said, if you want to try writing a patch, go for it.

thanks -mike