Re: GNUstep on MS Windows

[Chris Hanson]

On Dec 8, 2003, at 9:14 AM, Jeff Teunissen wrote:
> Rearrangement of menu items is wrong, full-stop.
>
> If you are designing a UI for Windows then you build a different menu
> system, with different accelerator keys, different names, and so on. 
> You
> can't just transplant the "GNUstep on Unix" menu system onto it and 
> expect
> it to be useful to a "native" user.

Right.  Fortunately, it's pretty easy to do something like this.

* MainMenu-windows.gsmodel for Windows
* MainMenu-macosx.gsmodel for Mac OS X
* MainMenu.gsmodel for GNUstep on X11

And GNUstep could choose between them automatically.  It could even 
fall back from Windows to Mac OS X to plain vanilla (or whichever 
ordering would make the most sense) fairly easily.

OpenStep supported this; they called it "platform variants."  You could 
create platform variants of any resource, and the right platform 
variant would automatically be chosen for the platform you were running 
on.  If there was no need for a platform variant, you didn't have to 
create one.  Nice and simple for the developer.

  -- Chris

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