On Sat, Oct 8, 2011 at 16:19, Ted Gould <t...@gould.cx> wrote: > On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 18:22 -0400, Shaun McCance wrote: >> On Fri, 2011-10-07 at 15:01 -0500, Diego Escalante Urrelo wrote: >> > Don't know if you have considered this but in OSX some applications >> > have a search entry in its Help menu, this entry searches among all >> > the menu items and also Help topics. It's really useful for >> > applications with *huge* menus like FinalCut. >> > It's has been a lifesaver the few times I've been unable to remember >> > where a menu item was or what was the exact name of one. >> > >> > Might not be next best thing as-is, but perhaps it serves as >> > inspiration for something else. >> >> That actually works as well in my prototypes, but it might not >> be in good enough shape for 3.4. The interaction with a text >> entry in a menu is really hard in GTK+. GtkMenu just wasn't >> designed to do that. > > Yeah, it wasn't. We have an implementation in our IDO library, you're > welcome to use. If there's interest we can look at how this could move > into GTK+. > > > http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~canonical-dx-team/ido/trunk/view/head:/src/idoentrymenuitem.c
Guess it would be better if applications wouldn't need to duplicate workarounds, so maybe we could fix GtkMenu so we don't need a subclass of GtkMenuItem specific for containing entries? Maybe Cody has already some thoughts about what needs to be fixed in GtkMenu(Item)? Regards, Tomeu > Hope that helps. > > --Ted > > > _______________________________________________ > desktop-devel-list mailing list > desktop-devel-list@gnome.org > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list > _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list