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| From: | Stefan Urbanek |
| Subject: | Menu (Was: Re: Unimplemented AppKit classes) |
| Date: | Wed, 22 Jan 2003 20:02:55 +0100 |
On 2003-01-22 19:28:08 +0100 Tobias <ibotty@web.de> wrote: (snipped)
That's what status items are for -- to show application or system-service status, or to provide interactivity when another program is being run. That they can be (ab)used to do other things is not Apple's problem.i see your point. but some great things can be done with status items, that have nothing to do with status. nevertheless i think you are right, and we have to abandon this idea anyway due to a lack of a central menubar.
I prefer menu-bar to nextish menu (this preference comes from my Atari ST days). It takes less space. As far as i remember, there were some attemts(patches) to create a menu bar in gnustep-gui. What do you think about a menubar like this: http://amiga.emugaming.com/concept/mockup.jpg Status bar can be same, but from another side, or from the bottom right corner... How difficult it should be to change gui that way, that we can have 'NSMenu' bundles with custom menu interface, so developers can create and user can chose what they like? Can something like that be achieved by using NSInterface functions? (loading of interface bundles) Stefan
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