On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 15:01 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: > Don't know if you have considered this but in OSX some applications > have a search entry in its Help menu, this entry searches among all > the menu items and also Help topics. It's really useful for > applications with *huge* menus like FinalCut. > It's has been a lifesaver the few times I've been unable to remember > where a menu item was or what was the exact name of one. > > Might not be next best thing as-is, but perhaps it serves as > inspiration for something else.
That actually works as well in my prototypes, but it might not be in good enough shape for 3.4. The interaction with a text entry in a menu is really hard in GTK+. GtkMenu just wasn't designed to do that. -- Shaun > > On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Shaun McCance <[email protected]> wrote: > > I'd like to propose we push for better help menus and help buttons > > in 3.4. This is something I've talked about for about two years now. > > It's all part of the "more accessible help" big picture that we get > > with Mallard. > > > > http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/HelpMenus > > > > -- > > Shaun > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > desktop-devel-list mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
