Re: Apple style menu bar!

[Andrei Yurkevich <urruru ru ru>]

Jim Gettys wrote:

> > The problem isn't that it is difficult to implement, but that it will 
> > bring great inconsistency to your desktop. If GTK+ sometime adds support 
> > for mac-style menu bar, you will end up with some of your apps having 
> > menubar in the top of the screen, while others (older gtk/gnome apps and 
> > all the others, like motif/kde/qt/whatever apps) having the menubar 
> > wherever they used to have it.
> >    
> Fundamentally, this is the issue.
>
> If you could convince KDE to also be interested in implementing such
> menu bars in Qt, Motif is now rare enough that it might not matter
> too badly if those ugly old applications were weird.
>  
As far as I remember, QT does support mac-style menu bars (at least it 
did in KDE-1.x and 2.x times), however I'm afraid that it's near to 
impossible to implement that kind of menu-bar in GTK+, making it 
compatible with those of QT

Speaking of motif and other toolkits: yes, they are rare, but there is 
still plenty of apps that use them, especially propietary and 
closed-source applications - quite a few of them are shipped statically 
linked against motif, gtk+-1.x and even some other toolkits. And another 
thing is that those are usually applications that are used in 
enterprises and cannot be replaced with anything else, moreover they are 
usually the applications people work most of their time with, so 
inconsistency is really a problem here.

cheers,
Andrei