Re: OS's menu?

[David Chisnall]

On 31 Jul 2013, at 09:23, "Lundberg, Johannes" 
<johannes@brilliantservice.co.jp> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> Are there any ongoing plans on change the default menus of GNUstep?
> 
> I know there are work in progress to have GNUstep use Ubuntu's menu instead 
> of having a floating menu on the desktop.
> 
> Are there similar work in progress for making this happen on Windows and OS X?

The Windows theme will use in-window menus, drawn with the win32 APIs.  I don't 
know of anyone using GNUstep for GUI applications on OS X, but if you request 
the Mac interface theme then you get Mac-style menus for other GNUstep 
applications.  This is what I tend to use.  You can also select in-window menus 
if you prefer them.

> For me the floating menu is quite awkward and doesn't go well together with 
> any modern OS of today. It takes up space on the desktop and won't let you 
> maximize your window without hiding the menu.

Yes, the NeXT style menu performs very poorly in Fitts' Law analyses as well.

> Having GNUstep applications use the OS's menu would be a great improvement in 
> my opinion. However, I suppose maintenance load would increase whenever 
> there's a new version of the OS. 

It depends on stable APIs.  These exist on Windows and they might eventually 
exist with Unity...

David