Re: [Usability] Panel-dockable menubar now possible?

[Dave Ahlswede <mightyquinn charter net>]

Ideally, I'd prefer a WM-agnostic method-- I personally use FVWM with
Gnome.. and the GTK1.2 thing looks like it's basically doing the same
thing as KDE/kwin does, which is rather inelegant. (The menubar can't be
a part of a panel-- it's an independant window)


On Mon, 2004-05-31 at 09:52 +0200, John Keller wrote:
> Dave Ahlswede wrote:
> > Through Google, I stumbled upon a thread from late last year that
> > mentioned with some of the new features in GTK 2.4, that externalizing a
> > program's menubar (towards a Mac/Amiga global menu concept) would be
> > more feasible than it was before.
> >
> > Is this the case? And if so, has anyone undertaken the project to do it?
> 
> Wow, this is something that I've wanted for a really long time.
> Unfortunately, I've never had the ability to code it. It would go incredibly
> well with the spatial Nautilus, since the repeated menu bar takes up space
> that could be better used for the open folder window.
> 
> Some time ago, I came across this page for a GTK 1.x version:
>     http://carcosa.net/jason/software/obsolete/gnome-globalmenu/
> 
> While it doesn't directly address your question (i.e. how to do it in GTK
> 2.4), it might still provide some insight. Note, too, that it's for Sawfish,
> which may mean that there'd be additional hurdles to make a new version that
> also worked within Metacity.
> 
> Here's hoping that someone might have interest in this...
> 
> - John
> 
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