On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Hubert Figuiere wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Something I'm wondering: what choice did lead to not put a menubar in the
> diagram display window but a right-click popup menu ? Is is because of
> Gimp or are there any other reasons ?
It's not for Gimp look-a-like-ness, it's because us Gimp-users find it's
very handy to not need to find the top of the window to do stuff.
> I'm currently writting a patch to the 0.86 source tree that, with an
> option,allow me to have a menu bar. Would somebody have an objection
> against integrating it in the source tree ? (I'd have to resynschronize
> with the CVS tree, but that is not the problem).
I see no problem with it.
> And should I make this option toggling on/off the menu bar or toggling
> between the menu bar and the popup menu ? I'd prefer the last solution as
> that would allow me to make a contextual menu with right-click instead of
> middle-click, which is more consistent with the rest of GNOME.
Would you then move the middle menu to a right-click menu? That's what we
have in terms of context menu.
-Lars
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