Re: Fix for tear-off toolbars

[Toshio Kuratomi <badger prtr-13 ucsc edu>]

On Sat, 14 Feb, 1998 at 05:21:47PM -0700, Paul Hepworth set free these words:
> > 	I used a window manager in Windows which let you tear off an
> > application's menus.  It was really nice and very powerful.  When your
> > application wasn't focused, the menus disappeared.  When the
> > application
> > got focus again, they came back.  
> > 
> > 	If I recall, the disappearing trick was turned off if the focus
> > style was not click-to-focus.  (Imagine the headaches!)  Although I
> > think
> > this could be done a little better if it worked a little like
> > auto-raise.
> > (Wait xxx milliseconds before drawing the menus to see if the user
> > REALLY
> > meant it.)
> > 
> Oh, yes!  I like this.  (Of course, the menus should be visible if
> either the main window or any of its child windows
> (menus/toolsets/dialgs) have focus.)  How would this be implemented?
> 
I don't like this.  Forces you to bring focus to a window in order to use
any torn off menu bar.... I think it could be a nice feature if it was
user-configurable though.

-Toshio
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