Re: Some thoughts about window management

[James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>]

Nigel Tao wrote:

>Excuse my ignorance, but even if it isn't cross-process, is this even
>currently possible with gtk?
>
>I have an applet that is pretty much just a GtkEntry, but I couldn't
>figure out how to get my GtkEntry's right-click menu (which includes
>Copy, Paste, Input Method wizardry) to also contain the standard panel
>applet items (Move, Lock, Remove from Panel), not to mention my own menu
>items (About, Preferences).  My workaround is to also have a GtkButton
>(which normally does nothing on right-click) in the Applet.
>  
>
The panel menus currently use the BonoboUI system -- activation of the
out of process menu items is done through CORBA method invocations.

You'd need some system like that to do the window manager menus
(although I don't think there is much enthusiasm for adding bonobo as a
dependency for new features).

James.