Re: Menus

[Tom Vogt <tom lemuria org>]

Federico Mena Quintero <federico@nuclecu.unam.mx> wrote:
> >  whoops? why should the api change one bit? there's just a rip-off line added
> >  to the top of each open menu and clicking on that makes the transient window
> >  into a full-blown one, window decorations and control by window manager and
> >  all that. I don't know much X programming, but looks like two or three dozen
> >  lines of code to me.
> 
> Tear-off or pinnable menus are notoriously tricky to implement right.
> Please take a look at gtkmenu.c and gtktearoffmenuitem.c to see why.

I just did. :)

ok, it's a bit more of code, but nothing really surprising. and I didn't
find anything that would change the api, which was the point.


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