Re: Tear-off menus

[Matthew Wilson <msw gimp org>]

Evan Lawrence said:
> Yeah, sounds relatively simple after thinking about it a
> little. You'd need a slight modification to the menu drawing code to
> draw the dashed line, and then just add the functions that would
> duplicate the menu's structure and callbacks and pack that into a
> toplevel window - one issue that would need deciding on would be
> whether to expect the window manager to add the necassary close
> buttons, or request that their be no decorations (the way the
> tearoff toolbars are) and use gtk widgets for the close and (I
> guess) minimize buttons... I'd volunteer to implement this except
> that A) I've got a *lot* of other things going on, and B) I really
> don't use tearoff menus :)

I'm not sure if Owen didn't want this known, but he already has tear
off menus and menubar mnemonics mostly working.  I'm not sure when they'll
go into GTK+ HEAD, but it shouldn't be too far off...

Matt