Re: GNOME 3.2 ideas and plans

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 12:14 +1300, John Stowers wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:02 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote:
> > With GNOME 3.0 going into code freeze any day now, it is high time
> > that we start looking beyond 3.0 and start collecting ideas and making
> > plans for what comes next. To that end, I have collected a list of
> > things that have fallen off the 3.0 train at one point or another, as
> > well as some other things that might be nice to put on the roadmap.
> > Some of these have designs and/or working implementations, others or
> > just ideas.
> > 
> > I'd like to encourage everybody to chime in with their own ideas and
> > plans for GNOME 3.2.
> 
> How about a GtkMenuButton - so people can pack menus into a button if
> they don't want a menubar in their application.
> 
> We are starting to see this trend a bit now, current examples are
> Chrome/ium and Firefox (kinda), but it appears in the GNOME3 EOG mockups
> too.
> 
> GtkMenuToolButton is close but AFAIK can't take sub-menus.

Totem's browser plugin already uses such a button/menu combo. We could
really do with something integrated in GTK+.