Re: [Gimp-user] Bug in "arrow" plugin, possible bug with tear-off menus

[mark_at_yahoo <markrubn yahoo com>]

On 12/19/2016 09:04 AM, mark_at_yahoo via gimp-user-list wrote:
> So this is a longstanding bug? I vaguely remember doing it
> sans-workaround "way back when" == unknown version.

Late-breaking news: I went into my personal, "posts I found interesting 
enough to save" archives of this list and found a 2004 notice about 
removing tear-off menu configuration from the preferences dialog. I had 
already looked there in 2.8 and there was nothing.

I just now experimented and found that adding "(tearoff-menus no)" to my 
~/.gimp-2.8/gimprc *does* turn them off; the "------" line at the top of 
the secondary menu no longer appears. Setting it back to "yes" 
re-enables them, as of course does leaving out the tag completely. The 
tag isn't in any of the system-wide configuration files 
(/usr/share/gimp/2.0/themes/*/gtkrc on my distro) so I'm guessing the 
compiled-in default is "yes".

So it's still in the codebase, just probably dusty and untouched for 10+ 
years.

Sorry for the spam -- likely nobody's interested in any of this -- but 
thanks again to Steve for helping me out.