Subject: Re: Gnome-ified menus
From: Joaquín Cuenca Abela (cuenca@ie2.u-psud.fr)
Date: Thu Feb 10 2000 - 18:09:05 CST
Paul Rohr wrote:
>
> At 05:34 PM 2/10/00 -0500, Dom Lachowicz wrote:
> >Applying a gnome-patch like what I suggest would
> >probably lead to an inconsistant build across platforms, since menus
> >would have to be edited in more than one place for any given change - be
> >it in layouts, callbacks, strings, etc...
>
> You're right. Maintaining the same information in more than one place would
> be a Bad Thing. Very.
>
> The whole point of having a single set of this information in XP code is
> that it only has to be touched once for all platforms and translations. Any
> remaining magic gets handled in platform-specific EV code.
>
> >I don't see a workaround for
> >this - other than maybe adding another field to the set returned from
> >m_pUnixApp->getMenuActionSet() to handle Gnome'ish pixmaps.
>
> The effect you want to achieve may not be all that difficult. You should
> probably get in touch with Joaquin and see what approach he's taking:
>
> http://www.abisource.com/mailinglists/abiword-dev/00/February/0117.html
I have to add that the menu bar it's almost finished. The images that
you can see at http://www.ie2.u-psud.fr/~cuenca/menubar.html are real
screenshots of the menus that I have in Abiword. The only points
missing are the key shortcuts (Alt-F for file, etc...) and the
_refreshMenu logic, but right now I'm ussing the gnome menu bar items
all the time.
I don't have a valid patch right now because my actual cvs image is a
BIG mess (because of the bonobo support). I expect to have a patch in
two days (approx.).
If you are interested, I can post a mail with the approach that I've
taken with the menubar.
-- Joaquín Cuenca Abela e-mail: cuenca@ie2.u-psud.fr
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