Re: Mac OS X native menubar

[Richard Hult <richard imendio com>]

Johan Dahlin skrev:
> Easy B wrote:
> > Hi guys
> >
> > Now that Anders is not actively coding on the port anymore,  I guess
> > nobody really is. Well I would love a nice and complete gtk port on the
> > mac so I'm trying to contribute where I can. The next thing I want to
> > give a try is the menubar. I'm aware of the long discussion about this
> > particular case but as far as I know nobody came with a final solution.
> > It was more like a discussion about creating a special api or not. Well
> > in my opinion the first menubar should be mapped to the top. This way a
> > lot of gtk apps would compile out of the box. If it doesn't work he
> > developer or the porter needs a way to fix the menubar the way it should be.
>
> That's just wrong.
>
> Gtk+ must be able to solve the case when you have multiple menubars.
> Evolution for instance has at least two: one in the shell
> and one in the composer.

Well, those are in separate toplevel windows, so it's not really a 
problem in that way.

However, in most cases you will want to tweak the menu layout anyway to 
follow the standard way of OSX applications, so if there is a small 
additional API for handling the top menu in OSX, that wouldn't be that bad.

/Richard

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