Re: RFC: new features

[Stefan Sauer <ensonic hora-obscura de>]

On 01/18/2012 08:53 PM, Christian Hergert wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-01-18 at 09:49 +0100, Sergio Villar Senin wrote:
>> En 13/01/12 16:04, Bastien Nocera escribiu:
>>> On Thu, 2012-01-12 at 11:23 +0100, Alexander Larsson wrote:
>>>> On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 20:38 -0800, Christian Hergert wrote:
>>> <snip>
>>>>> MENU BUTTON
>>>>> A GtkButton that shows a menu when clicked (and handles positioning,
>>>>> etc). Some would just use a combobox, but I find them pretty different.
>>>>> You'll find this sort of "menu button" in various VMware products on
>>>>> Linux. (I know the fullscreen toolbar used to have it at least).
>>>> Gnome-contacts has one of these (at least in Gnome 3.2). Its not hard to
>>>> do but would be nice to have in a single place. Also, it needs some help
>>>> from the theme to look good, like adwaita does here:
>>>> http://git.gnome.org/browse/gnome-themes-standard/commit/?id=90c4f48cf7720fb9b31e8388843a5fa6b8f3f705
>>> Totem has a menu button as well, look for "popup_button" in:
>>> http://git.gnome.org/browse/totem/tree/browser-plugin/totem-plugin-viewer.c
>> Epyphany hackers have also recently added the "super menu" which is a 
>> similar concept.
> Would anyone like to propose an API for how this should be implemented
> in Gtk? My assumption is just that we need a "menu" property and a menu
> position func with default implementation. Anything else?

Maybe better discuss this in the bug. One issue I had was to come up
with a suitable icon.

Stefan
> -- Christian
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