Re: Mac OS X native menubar

[Easy B <easy-b freesurf ch>]

Thanx for your responses. Actually such an api wouldn't be bad at  
all. If some one wants to write one, be free. But I think the first  
thing we got to do is get these menus up there. Afterwards we can  
discuss the further possibilities.

Cheers,
Ezra.

On 29.05.2006, at 22:13, Richard Hult wrote:

> 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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