Re: Horizontal menus.

[Matt Rice]

I wouldn't say impossible, just difficult, given
bundle loading in interface wm, it seems possible for
iwm to provide a horizontal in window NSMenu, not that
it would work in *any* window manager... and I think
that would alleviate the Window/Menu thing given that
only apps which provide nsmenu's and nswindows would
get such a thing... 

matt

--- Alexander Malmberg <alexander@malmberg.org> wrote:
> Jefferson Harlough wrote:
> > 
> > Is there any way (patches, perhaps) to use
> horizontal menus instead of the
> > NeXT-ish vertical menus?
> 
> A theme bundle can do things like this (it shouldn't
> be a patch).
> 
> > I'm thinking more of horizontal menus as found it
> > many existing environments and applications, local
> to a specific application
> > window rather than the horizontal Mac OS-style
> menubar across the top of the
> > entire screen.
> 
> A mac-style menu is certainly possible. A
> windows-style menu probably
> isn't. Applications often don't have windows at all,
> and when they do,
> how would you know to which window(s) the menu
> should be attached?
> (Detaching a menu window when there are no windows,
> and somewhat
> intelligent guessing about what windows to attach to
> might make it
> usable, but not pretty.)
> 
> >    Thanks,
> >       Jefferson Harlough
> 
> - Alexander Malmberg
> 
> 
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