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 ?
The original reason for the current menu structure was inspired by the
gimp, and a lot of people find the gimp style menus (together with the
tearoff ability) quite useful.
However, there are a lot of people who find the menubar at the top of the
window useful as well, so it would probably be a good feature (maybe with
the ability to hide it for people who don't like it).
One nice thing about the current menu structure is that the accelerators
(shortcuts) always stay up to date when you change them. If you have
multiple menus, you may set an accelerator in one window, but the menus in
the other windows won't reflect the change (the accelerator would still
work though).
>
> 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).
Sounds good.
>
> 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.
Probably toggling the menubar on and off for now. If having the menu bar
at the top is sufficient then maybe we could think about that.
Note that the context menu is also available as shift right click or
something like that.
James.
