Re: First Impressions, gnome 2

["Liam R. E. Quin" <liam holoweb net>]

On Mon, 2002-04-29 at 01:29, Havoc Pennington wrote:
> 
> Liam Quin <liam holoweb net> writes: 
> > [4] gnome-terminal "hide menu bar" setting is not remembered -- I have to
> >     click it each tiem I open a new terminal, yawnsville.  OK on a 21"
> >     screen, not on a 13" laptop.

[...]

> My only idea to avoid the bug report is to remove it from the menu,
> and have the setting be "Show menubar" and the setting affects already
> open terminals in addition to default state of new terminals.
> 
> If I get deluged with reports of this bug I might do that, I guess.

Thanks for the reply, Havoc.

I wish the window manager could show a little gtk triagle, like
the one gimp uses for the pop-up menu, that would pop up the
application's menu bar.  Or, that the title bar of the current
application would turn into the menu bar on focus-enter.  Either
way, the goal would be to be able to get at menus without having
to lose 2 text lines of precious real-estate.

I think this gnome-terminal behaviour falls into the category of,
"it used to work in 1.4 and now it doesn't, so obviously a bug",
even though the design was very flawed.  Given a choice between
getting this fixed and having "open link" dingus-click working,
I'd go for dingus-click any day, especially as it's not 100% clear
what fixing it means.

Now that the terminal widget doesn't resize when the menu bar is
hidden/shown, hide/show the menu bar in all term windows would
probably be OK.

Compromise, make sure all menus are accessible from the context menu.
E.g. add a Menu Bar menu (ugh) with show/hide as the first option,
then each main menu as a sub-menu.  Well, these are just some
looney ideas in case they spark something useful.

Liam


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