Re: Menus

[Julian Morrison <julian morrison virgin net>]

bagfors@hpc2n.umu.se wrote:

> How about looking on how gnustep does this?
>
> looking at the screenshot at
> http://home.sprintmail.com/~mhanni/gstep-desktop-981021.jpg you will see that they have next-step-like menues.  However it doesn't seam like they have a global menu that changes depending on which program is in focus.

OpenStep (which GNUstep is implementing/cloning) uses a global fixed-visible menu, which changes content depending on the window that has focus. You can also right-click the root window to pop up a floating (and
pinnable) main menu on OpenStep.

> Having one next-lookalike menu for gnome-programs and one that works in another way for gnustep programs and another way for other programs might get VERY confusing :)

Maybe Gnome can (like GNUstep) integrate with gnome/GNUstep windowmanager-managed-menu hints. For example GNUstep on WindowMaker uses (or will use) WindowMaker's native menu drawing system.

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Julian Morrison