Re: Fixing the foobar wrt fitt's law

[Seth Nickell <snickell stanford edu>]

On Thu, 2001-10-04 at 08:18, jacob berkman wrote:
> On Wed, 2001-10-03 at 19:50, Seth Nickell wrote:
> > 
> > *however* one aspect about it has been driving me up the walls. The
> > menus do not extend to the top of the screen, and in particular you
> > can't access the Programs menu by flinging your pointer into the upper
> > right corner.
> 
> this is an easy one.
> 
> ximian ships a patch to gtk to not add a border when the menu bar's
> shadow is set to GTK_SHADOW_NONE.
> 
> so, an alternative fix would be a long the lines of setting the x/y
> thickness of these menubars to 0.

Hm, so does anyone have a suggestion for how we can avoid this happening
in future GNOME releases? (i.e. is patching GTK+ this way acceptable to
the GTK team, or is there another/better way to do it?). I'd really like
to get this killed, if not in GNOME1 at least in GNOME2.

-Seth