Re: Apple style menu bar!

[Jim Gettys <Jim Gettys hp com>]

> 
> The problem isn't that it is difficult to implement, but that it will 
> bring great inconsistency to your desktop. If GTK+ sometime adds support 
> for mac-style menu bar, you will end up with some of your apps having 
> menubar in the top of the screen, while others (older gtk/gnome apps and 
> all the others, like motif/kde/qt/whatever apps) having the menubar 
> wherever they used to have it.


Fundamentally, this is the issue.

If you could convince KDE to also be interested in implementing such
menu bars in Qt, Motif is now rare enough that it might not matter
too badly if those ugly old applications were weird.

So it is a larger project that GTK+; at a minimum, it is something
that really needs freedesktop work and cooperation to be worth
pursuing.
				- Jim Gettys