Re: Menus

[Miguel de Icaza <miguel nuclecu unam mx>]

> I wonder if it would be possible to reparent all the torn-off menubars to a
> common window, i.e. a floating menu container....  When each GNOME app started up
> in global-menu-mode, it would register its menu with the container, rather than
> itself.  When each GNOME app got the focus, it could make a quick little CORBA
> call with a single parameter, the menu id (which it passed when it registered the
> menu).  Now, I'm no X-Windows guru either, but this sounds like it might be
> workable.  **Assuming** tear-off menus can be reparented like that.
> 
> Anyone?

The current API allows this.  

It would be simple to do, but I do not think it will happen on time
for GNOME 1.0 as we are freezing in three weeks the code.

Miguel.