Re: GTK+ Mac OS X state of the union

[Michael L Torrie <torriem chem byu edu>]

On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 19:33 +0100, Ross Burton wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-03-28 at 10:31 -0700, Michael L Torrie wrote:
> > I believe that simply taking the focused window's GtkMenuBar is
> > impractical because there's nothing that says that an window must only
> > have one GtkMenuBar.  It could have several. Which one do you use?
> 
> A window with multiple GtkMenuBar instances is going to be pretty rare,
> but taking the first GtkMenuBar child would work in 99.9% of cases I'd
> expect.  Personally I can't think of any applications that have more
> than one GtkMenuBars in a window.

Sure, but but what about apps like the Gimp.  These apps don't fit
currently into the OS X paradigm 1:1.  OS X apps do not switch menus
willy nilly between different windows in the same application.  Thus
doing some automatic window-menubar mappings would really be bad in the
case of the Gimp.  

> 
> Ross