Re: dynamic menus

[Christian Schoenebeck <schoenebeck linuxsampler org>]

On Dienstag, 27. Februar 2018 15:57:05 CET Kjell Ahlstedt wrote:
> One way to get references to the menu items is to build the menu with
> C++ code instead of an XML file, as is done in
> https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtkmm-documentation/tree/examples/book/applicat
> ion/app_and_win_menus/exampleapplication.cc Then you can keep a
> Glib::RefPtr<Gio::MenuItem> for each menu item that you want to modify. But
> I can understand if you dislike this idea.

Well, what does make more sense; forcing all application developers to rewrite 
entire applications (again) just to address this particular, strange issue, or 
to handle this on Gtk level by accepting the trivial patch already provided. I 
mean look at gtkbuilder-menus.c, you can query a submenu by id, and even a 
menu "section". So where is the point in drawing a line exactly here, that is 
allowing to query all those and more by id, but to prohibit querying a menu 
item by id? I mean a menu item is the most important thing an application 
developer would want to query. So far Gtk maintainers did not provide a 
rational reason for this.

CU
Christian