Re: popup menus, xml merge

[Federico Mena Quintero <federico ximian com>]

Darin Adler <darin eazel com> writes:

> > Those who don't like tearoffs just need to add
> > tearoff="0" to any menu popup or otherwise that takes their fancy.
> 
> Not to be argumentative, but "those who don't like tearoffs" includes pretty
> much anyone who wants their right-click menus to look like the right-click
> menus from other non-Bonobo programs.
> 
> I suggest that we continue to omit the ability tear off right-click menus in
> GNOME programs for user interface reasons, even though it's easy
> "technically".

<aol>

Right-click menus are context menus by convention, so if you tear them
off you need to somehow be able to modify or delete them when the
relevant context goes away.  It is more trouble that it is worth.

  Federico