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List:       gtk-devel
Subject:    Re: Mac OS X native menubar
From:       Easy B <easy-b () freesurf ! ch>
Date:       2006-05-29 21:21:21
Message-ID: A4F409B4-47EB-4417-84C9-25F3EA8528C6 () freesurf ! ch
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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
>
> -- 
> Imendio AB, http://www.imendio.com/

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