Re: Mac-style menus

[<bob thestuff net>]

It will work with sloppy focus if enough of a time out is set that you can
make it to the macbar if you move your mouse to it fast enough.

On Thu, 8 Jun 2000, Michael Rogers wrote:

> 
> > I'm still convinced that the best way to do this is to create a
> > Menu Applet which apps will send their menus to.
> 
> One thing to bear in mind is that Mac-style menus only make sense in a 
> click-to-focus environment. With sloppy focus it will often be impossible to 
> reach the menu without losing focus to another app. Possibilities:
> 
> * Let the Menu Applet control the window manager's focus policy. Window 
>   manager writers will not love you.
> 
> * Assume that users have enough common sense not to use Mac-style menus with 
>   a sloppy-focus window manager. Somebody will claim that their mother does 
>   not have this much sense.
> 
> * Implement the feature in a window manager.
> 
> > I plan to make this completely transparent to apps. The work of
> > getting the menus to the applet would all be handled in the
> > GnomeApp menu code. All the user has to do is add the applet to a
> > panel and check an option in gnomecc. Apps will then
> > automatically use the menu applet.
> 
> I think you could just add code to GnomeApp which marks the menubar window 
> with a "this is a menubar" property. One line of code.  :)  The window manager 
> (any window manager - get it added to the new wm-spec) would detect this 
> property and reparent the menubar into a special frame at the top of the 
> screen. You might be able to talk the KDE people into doing the same thing so 
> it will work for KDE apps under Gnome as well. In fact I think I recall 
> hearing that KDE already supports Mac-stlye menus. I'd be interested to know 
> how they did it.
> 
> 
> 
> Michael
> 
> 
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