Re: global menubars in GTK+

["Brian J. Tarricone" <bjt23 cornell edu>]

On 05/25/2009 09:22 AM, Yu Feng wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 20:17 +0800, Davyd Madeley wrote:
>
> > OTOH, if GTK+ had API for this, a backend could be written to power the
> > gnome2-globalmenu applet from this API.
>
> However, the reason why GGM is using GtkWidgets in favor of GtkActions
> is that there are plenty of programs who don't build the menus with
> GtkActions at all.
>
> 'It's going to break applications that do not use this API.'
>
> Otherwise using GtkUIBuilder is much less effort than the current
> approach.

I think this is actually OK and preferred.  Making the global menu only 
work with apps that make use of GtkAction and GtkUIManager for creating 
menus is yet another way to push people toward using this functionality 
rather than creating menus by hand "the old way."

If apps don't work with the global menu, they'll get bugs filed against 
them by users who care (well, ok, let's be honest: some users will file 
the bug with the global menu itself, but I think that's inevitable).  If 
app authors care to be compatible for their users that use a global 
menu, that's great.  Otherwise their app will just show up with a 
menubar per-window as usual, and that's fine too.

	-brian