Re: global (MacOS Style) menubar applet [initial patch]

[jacob helixcode com (Jacob "Ulysses" Berkman)]

Mark <jamess1 wwnet com> writes:

> Havoc Pennington wrote:
> > 
> > Miguel de Icaza <miguel helixcode com> writes:
> > > The KDE approach is to set a "hint" on the window, and let the window
> > > manager, reparent the window to the top.
> > >
> > 
> > That seems like a relatively clean solution to the problem to me. And
> > has the advantage that the same window manager could support both
> > GTK and Qt apps.
> 
> I suppose an applet too could look for that hint and reparent the
> window. From using my patch a while, I must say I really do like having
> the menu inside a panel. It gives a much more integrated feel, and would
> (not implemented yet) allow you to customize the position easier.
> 
> Do you guys opose having a panel applet that can look for the window
> hint and swallow the menu?

There is a "swallow" applet and a status applet which both do this.

gnome-core/panel/swallow.c
gnome-core/panel/status.c

Jacob
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