Re: Quick menubar question

[yves mail2 vlaanderen net]

Hi,

I think there can be different approaches to this.
Most menubars are in a gtkhandlebox. You can put your menu-bar
anywhere on your screen but it's not that practical.

I think a nice solution would be that the gtkhandlebox, not in docking
mode would detect the screen edges and react accordingly to create a
"screen"-menubar. Looking at the source it wouldn't be too hard i think.

-Yves

On Wed, Jul 11, 2001 at 11:52:47AM +0100, Calum Benson wrote:
> Stefan Werner wrote:
> 
> > My question: Will this be an option one day or is the menu bar inside the window a final
> > decision? If this is a final decision, why was it made (links to previous discussions are
> > enough). I've looked through the archives, but I couldn't find much on that topic.
> 
> I seem to remember hearing that it will probably be an option in 2.0,
> but I don't know if that's still the case or not.
> 
> Some of the main arguments against it are that it doesn't work so nicely
> if you use "focus follows mouse" mode, which many people do, and it
> potentially conflicts with edge-flipping between virtual desktops. 
> Neither does it work too well if you're running an application across
> multiple displays, because the menus often end up on a different display
> from the one you're working on at the time.  
> 
> (And on large workstation displays, when I'm working down at the bottom
> of the screen, frankly I just find it annoying to have to move the mouse
> all the way to the top of the screen and back down again, even though it
> might be a fraction of a second quicker than the alternative!)
> 
> All these are just arguments against having the Mac-like menu bar as the
> default, though... it would probably work just fine for some (maybe even
> most) people, and it does have its advantages.
> 
> Cheeri,
> Calum.
> 
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