Re: Some thoughts about window management

[Alex Graveley <alex beatniksoftware com>]

Mike, I know you've looked closely at solving this, just wondering what 
I'm missing...

Seems we could signal the app to show it's in-process menu at a given 
screen offset, with a given XID (the panel) as the parent, and avoid 
marshalling altogether?

-Alex

Mike Hearn wrote:
> b) It's hard to implement because (unlike in Windows) menus are not shared
>    between processes. So you'd need to define a marshalling format for
>    menus and then teach GTK+ to marshal any given menu, and then teach
>    the window managers what to do with it. Sounds like a lot of work and
>    complexity for relatively little gain.