Re: [Usability] Question: design choice of menubars

[Calum Benson <Calum Benson Sun COM>]

On Mon, 2004-09-20 at 16:28, Frans Englich wrote:

> Yes, and its the only way to solve it, cross-desktop or not, since it involves 
> being out-of-process. Implementing it in KDE is as easy as it gets, but no 
> idea about GTK, it depends on how well the menubar code is abstracted from 
> the API user. 

Not the most elegant solution, but any such applet could possibly just
use gtk's accessibility gubbins to interrogate the menu structure of the
currently-focused app-- GOK (and Dasher, I think) already do this.

Cheeri,
Calum.

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