Re: OS's menu?

[Lundberg, Johannes]

Hi Riccardo

Thanks for clarifying.

>There is no "operating system menu" on unix

Yeah, that's why I said "it depends on the window manager" but I was wrong.
Seems like GNUstep handles everything and supports the various styles.

That's great! Good job on the implementation!

Johannes Lundberg
BRILLIANTSERVICE CO., LTD.

On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 6:51 AM, Riccardo Mottola <rm@gnu.org> wrote:

Hi,

Lundberg, Johannes wrote:

Alright, thanks for the reply. So, basically Windows and OS X already supports it and Unity coming soon.

How about FreeBSD? Depends on the window manager I suppose but are there any options today?

There is no "operating system menu" on unix! Windows and OSX have their native stuff.
On all the rest GNUstep usually supports a certain "user interface style" by drawing it itself. If you want something at the bottom, Pie menus.. amiga-style mouse-click menus (not so different from NeXT...( then  you need to add it. But GS will draw it.

If the environment (I have only read about unity though) provides a system-wide support for that, you need to write your own code (possibly a thme like windows or possibly something dbus based) to "connect" to it.

Riccardo