Alright, thanks for the reply. So, basically Windows and OS X already
supports it and Unity coming soon.

How about FreeBSD? Depends on the window manager I suppose but are there
any options today?

Johannes Lundberg
BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD. <http://www.brilliantservice.co.jp>


On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 6:10 PM, David Chisnall <[email protected]
> wrote:

> On 31 Jul 2013, at 09:23, "Lundberg, Johannes" <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi
> >
> > Are there any ongoing plans on change the default menus of GNUstep?
> >
> > I know there are work in progress to have GNUstep use Ubuntu's menu
> instead of having a floating menu on the desktop.
> >
> > Are there similar work in progress for making this happen on Windows and
> OS X?
>
> The Windows theme will use in-window menus, drawn with the win32 APIs.  I
> don't know of anyone using GNUstep for GUI applications on OS X, but if you
> request the Mac interface theme then you get Mac-style menus for other
> GNUstep applications.  This is what I tend to use.  You can also select
> in-window menus if you prefer them.
>
> > For me the floating menu is quite awkward and doesn't go well together
> with any modern OS of today. It takes up space on the desktop and won't let
> you maximize your window without hiding the menu.
>
> Yes, the NeXT style menu performs very poorly in Fitts' Law analyses as
> well.
>
> > Having GNUstep applications use the OS's menu would be a great
> improvement in my opinion. However, I suppose maintenance load would
> increase whenever there's a new version of the OS.
>
> It depends on stable APIs.  These exist on Windows and they might
> eventually exist with Unity...
>
> David
>
>
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