On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 09:34:32AM -0700, Michael L Torrie wrote: > Yup this indeed a stickler. Given the current hodge-podge of menu > creating routines, plus the fact that menus are abstract in GTK (pop-up > menus, menubars, etc) doing this in an automated way seems to be very > difficult. I would be in favor of adding an API that could take a > GtkMenu tree object and stick it up on the OS X menu bar. This way GTK > apps could be modified as needed by the developer to better support OS > X, rather than try to make it automatic. A program like the Gimp, for > example, would pose a real problem to automatically trying to manipulate > the OS X menubar. Which menu do you display? The one on the main > window, the one on the image window? The developer usually has a good > idea of how to deal with that, so providing a simple API for that might > be the best way to go. Of course doing it in such a way that the final > code need not be changed between platforms would still be a challenge. > first of all (*sigh*) gimp is not photoshop. that being said, i would like to point out that when photoshop is working on a macintosh, there are a lot of little windows open all over the place.
maybe for any gtk+ application to "feel good" for macintosh users, it is simply a matter of removing menus from places. the idea that macintosh users do not work with dialog windows and such is, in my opinion, over-rated and also inaccurate. /me relurking now, carol _______________________________________________ gtk-devel-list mailing list gtk-devel-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-devel-list