[Glade-users] Spacing widgets on menu bar

[tvb at gnome.org (Tristan Van Berkom)]

On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 10:50 -0600, Jeffrey Barish wrote:
> Tristan Van Berkom wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure how the panel is made, but GtkToolbar does have support
> > for "homogenous" and "expand" properties, unfortunately the packing
> > properties are not expose in the menu editor so the only way of
> > accessing them currently is to select the toolitems in the Inspector
> > and use the "Packing" tab in the normal property editor.
>
> I looked at the Toolbar widget, but it does not appear to be possible to add
> a menu item to a toolbar (text with a popup menu).  Please correct me if I
> am wrong.  This limitation is what led me to conjecture that the widget at
> the top of the Gnome desktop is a menu bar, not a tool bar.  In my
> application, I need to mix text with popup menus and images with popup
> menus, so I think that I am stuck with the menu bar.

Oh I'm sorry I thought we were talking about the toolbar here,
my bad - anyway, if for some weird reason your app calls for abnormal
positioning of menus inside a menubar, you can always use an hbox
and place as many single-menu menubars inside them to your hearts
content, using the hbox for its positioning features, use alignments
or whatever other container widgets that are there for the purpose
of spacing.

Cheers,
               -Tristan