Re: Unimplemented AppKit classes

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 12:13  pm, Marco Scheurer wrote:

> > Likewise, NSStatusBar. It's mind-boggling that this class (added in
> > "Jaguar", I believe) even exists -- it's antithetical to the concepts
> > inherent in *step. *step applications aren't supposed to have modes 
> > that
> > need status information displayed, because they're supposed to follow 
> > the
> > KISS ("Keep It Simple, Stupid!") principle.
>
> NSStatusBar is used to display items in the system-wide menu bar, for 
> instance icons for sound volume, a clock, or airport status. May be it 
> does not make sense in GNUstep, but at least it is not a Windows-like 
> status bar. And in the Mac context, it is useful.

Yep ... NeXTstep applications which wanted to display status 
information in this sort of way did it by updating their app icons.
I really liked that and would like it to be the same in GNUstep, but 
it's a problem with systems which don't want you to have an
app icon (eg windows, or X-windows with most window managers).