Re: NSMenu* and NSPopuUp* issues

[Serg Stoyan]

Hello Stefan,

> 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

  There must be system wide menu to implement NSStatusBar, IMHO.
  In my opinion, NSStatusBar doesn't fit nicely into NeXT interface style.
  If you want to display some status info/image, use application icon
  instead.  60x60 (64x64 minus borders) pixels square is much more than
  MacOSX menu space. So at this  moment, we don't need such feature. In
  the future, we'll can implement it by displaying NSStatusBar information
  into menu or into appicon.

> 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.

  Extensions is Good Thing to have, but I don't see relations between this
  functionality and menu orientation. "Extensions" submenu should be added
  into "Info" menu or something. I see no problem here.

-- 
Serg Stoyan