Re: GMenuModel has landed

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Fri, 2011-12-09 at 09:14 -0500, Ryan Lortie wrote:
> The bad news is this: I don't expect this to be supported on a
> per-application basis or to be possible to use at all from the menubars
> of an application.  We need to make sure menus will continue to work on
> all platforms (including the mac and unity -- which will both display
> your menus in a different place, not even using Gtk in the case of the
> mac).
> 
> This means that you will only be able to use a minimum baseline level of
> functionality (labels, checks, radios, accels, icons, etc.) in the
> normal menubar and application menu of your program.

I find it extremely unfortunate that GTK+ will be restricted to using
the least common denominator. That's the kind of thing you get from
wrapper libraries like wxWidgets.

In particular, from what I can tell, it means the searchable help menu
work I did will be entirely impossible to rebase on this. Although do
note that Mac OS has had that exact functionality for years.

--
Shaun