Re: Micro$oft-style dragable, resizable, stackable menu/button bars.

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> I think the "make XXXbar take up a whole row" option is extraneous.
> If toolbars can be dragged and dropped, I would think that any bar
> that is placed alone on a bar should expand to occupy the entire
> row, instead of being display as a box around the UI elements (buttons
> or menu items).

I agree 100% with you.

> Miguel has informed me that Anders Carlson (andersca@gnu.org) has written
> a hack for the toolbar code that allows toolbars to shrink when a window
> is resized smaller than the contents of the toolbars.  The behavior is that
> some toolbar elements essentially drop out of sight past the right edge
> of the toolbar.  I have not yet checked out this implementation.  It doesn't
> solve all the toolbar needs, but it is a step in the right direction.

I've written a patch that allows you to turn toolbars on and off IE4/5 style.
It's got some bugs to be worked out, but this too I feel is a step in the right
direction.

iain