Re: Bonobo vs. tear-off menus

["John Sullivan" <sullivan eazel com>]

on 10/17/00 2:46 PM, Michael Meeks at michael helixcode com wrote:

> 
> Hi John,
> 
> On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, John Sullivan wrote:
>> Tear-off menus don't get along well with the new Bonobo UI code,
>> because the whole menu is deleted/recreated whenever any merging
>> occurs
> 
> This is not the case.
> 
>> (which closes the torn-off menu). Is there any way to work around
>> this, or should we just say goodbye to tear-off menus?
> 
> The thing is that tear off menus work for me; I just changed a few
> lines in test-app so you can see it. If you press the 'Press me' button,
> and then undock the Norwegian 'Go' menu, then press merge again, you will
> see what I mean. 
> 
> It is likely that you are changing / setting some attributes on
> the submenu node and this is forcing a re-build of both the shell and the
> menu item ( this is unfortunate but hard to avoid ). I imagine you have a
> problem in some xml file; can you wave a stick at where it is happening
> in Nautilus for me ?

OK, specifically it happens in Nautilus when switching between List and Icon
view to those menus whose contents change during that switch: the File,
Edit, and View menus.

Since I now know this isn't a general problem, I'll look into it a little
deeper before getting more help. Thanks for the message.

John