Re: NSMenu* and NSPopuUp* issues

[David Ayers]

Alexander Malmberg wrote:

> Serg Stoyan wrote:
> [snip]
>  
>
> > So, finally, we have to decide: Do we need horizontal menus in GNUstep
> > library or not? There is 2 ways:
> >
> > 1. We decide to leave horizontal menus -- I'll finish implementation.
> > 2. We decide to remove -- I'll remove horizontal menus code.
> >    
>
> There needs to be _one_ standard menu style that application developers
> can design for; what is a good choice of and layout of menu items in a
> vertical menu is very awkward in a horizontal menu. Having more than one
> in -gui will, at best, result in one being the de facto standard and all
> the others not really being supported, though it's more likely that
> we'll just end up with a big mess.
>
> If some want to use a theme bundle that provides horizontal menus,
> that's ok, but this is not a standard or supported case, and it's not
> what apps are designed for, so they will lose consistency.
>
>  
Hello Alex,

I almost agree... I think it will become important to support win32 
menus for ease of porting existing OPENSTEP Enterprise implementations 
and user acceptance of a menu scheme differing from all other apps on 
that plattform. I believe the actual menu structure is encoded in .nib 
files, so they will have to be touched anyways when porting. This could 
have been a reason why projects always needed seperate 
Wiindows/Next-style nib files so we would also need to create seperate 
.gorm files for horizontal menus I guess... (Hmm actually I'm not so 
sure they were sructured diffrently, I'll have to check again.) Given 
Renaisance, a mechanism for defining portable menus seems in reach, so I 
think it would be great if GNUstep could find some maintainable way to 
support horizontal menus. But I must agree that we shouldn't burden 
maintainablity for the standard GNUstep menu scheme unproportionatly.

Cheers,
Dave


Cheers,
Dave