Re: Dynamic help menus for 3.2

2011-10-11 Thread Shaun McCance
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 17:49 +1100, Danielle Madeley wrote: 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. Could it be made to

Re: Dynamic help menus for 3.2

2011-10-10 Thread Danielle Madeley
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. Could it be made to work only with GtkAction/GtkUIManager? -- Danielle Madeley

Re: Dynamic help menus for 3.2

2011-10-10 Thread Tomeu Vizoso
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

Re: Dynamic help menus for 3.2

2011-10-10 Thread Ted Gould
On Mon, 2011-10-10 at 09:08 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote: 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: That actually works as well in my prototypes, but it might not be in good enough shape for 3.4. The interaction with a

Re: Dynamic help menus for 3.2

2011-10-09 Thread Matthias Clasen
On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: I'd like to propose we push for better help menus and help buttons in 3.4. This is something I've talked about for about two years now. It's all part of the more accessible help big picture that we get with Mallard.

Re: Dynamic help menus for 3.2

2011-10-09 Thread Shaun McCance
On Sun, 2011-10-09 at 17:23 -0400, Matthias Clasen wrote: On Fri, Oct 7, 2011 at 9:43 AM, Shaun McCance sha...@gnome.org wrote: I'd like to propose we push for better help menus and help buttons in 3.4. This is something I've talked about for about two years now. It's all part of the more

Re: Dynamic help menus for 3.2

2011-10-08 Thread Ted Gould
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

Dynamic help menus for 3.2

2011-10-07 Thread Shaun McCance
I'd like to propose we push for better help menus and help buttons in 3.4. This is something I've talked about for about two years now. It's all part of the more accessible help big picture that we get with Mallard. http://live.gnome.org/ThreePointThree/Features/HelpMenus -- Shaun

Re: Dynamic help menus for 3.2

2011-10-07 Thread Diego Escalante Urrelo
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

Re: Dynamic help menus for 3.2

2011-10-07 Thread Shaun McCance
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