Re: NSMacintoshInterfaceStyle.. again

[Björn Gohla]

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On Wednesday 06 February 2002 08:00, Daniel Patrick wrote:

> I've been playing with the NSMacintoshInterfaceStyle menu's again.  I
> have managed to convince resize and drawing to take horizontal menu's
> into consideration when doing their thing.  I've also added tear-off
> menu's, using a small strip along the top of submenu's.  Is it big enough?
>
> At this point, an apple-type menu could be placed at the upper left of
> the screen.  I don't think it serves any real purpose in OSX, it's a
> good place for the Apple logo to sit.  I suppose it could contain the
> contents of Local/Apps and System/Apps as an easy laucher.  Does anyone
> think puting a (GNUstep) logo'd menu there would cause any problems,
> legal or otherwise?
>
> The menubar could be extended across the whole screen, but it seems
> pointless until NSSatusBar and NSStatusBarItem have been ported.
> NSStatusBarItem has not yet been documented by Apple, and they seem to
> be discouraging it's use...  Anyways, when (if) these get ported, an App
> could duplicate the function of OS9's  running-apps drop-down and
> display the current app as a default.  I'll start on them as soon as I'm
> comfortable with that sort of work..  Maybe tomorrow. ( ;

i think you are getting into areas there that are classically the 
windowmanagers domain. how about a windowmaker status applet (or a window 
manager independent x client) that can embed gnustep menus.
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