Re: NSMenu* and NSPopuUp* issues

[Stefan Urbanek]

On 2003-03-21 09:18:31 +0100 Serg Stoyan <stoyan@hologr.com> wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> Currently I'm working on fixing as much as possible NSMenu* and
> NSPopUp* related problems and bugs. I've found semi-working horizontal
> menus code. I've search through mail list archive and found discussions
> about horizontal menus. As a result of this discussion was:
>
> 1. Doesn't add horizontal menus into GNUstep library.
> 2. If someone needs this, reach this feature by making theme bundle.
> (example: http://w1.423.telia.com/~u42308495/alex/sillytheme-0.0.tar.gz)
>
> So, finally, we have to decide: Do we need horizontal menus in GNUstep
> library or not? There is 2 ways:

I see several advantages of horizontal menu:
- we are able to implement application menu (apple menu)
- it is possible to implement NSStatusBar

Application (apple) menu is Good Thing to have. GNUstep should take care about 
the contents of that menu. Possible ussages:

1. Application extensions, like debuging tools (memory panel, application 
object hierarchy browser,...)
2. Scripting extension should be put there (opening of script panel, 
transcript,...)
3. any other third party application extensions

The idea is to have */Library/Application Extensions/*.bundle. On the 
application startup, all or desired budles are loaded and additional menu items 
are inserted into the application menu (somewhere under Info.. and above Hide 
and Quit items). For speed up of launching, some cache mechanism should be used 
(like make_services).

There should be many other ussages of horizontal menu or application menu entry.

Stefan