I would say one menu bar per autonomous window, not one per application. On 27-Jan-2003 Wolfgang Thaller wrote:
nick.name@inwind.it wrote:
Can someone give me an example of a famous application under linux wich uses two different menubars in two different windows? Nothing comes to my mind.
seth@cql.com wrote:
Not just in linux, any "more than one menubar" app anywhere, on any O/S?
I can't think of any either, but then I use MacOS more than Linux or Windows. Does that mean that it would be OK for a toolkit to support just one menubar per application on non-MacOS platforms? All allegedly cross-platform toolkits I know treat a menubar as a property of a window or even as an ordinary widget that you can place inside a window, which causes several problems for the Mac OS implementations of those toolkits. A related problem with Mac OS is that when you close the last window of an application, the application doesn't terminate, it's menu bar is still there. You can still open a new document from the menu. When you click on the icon of an open application that doesn't have any windows, a new empty document window should be created. I know of no cross-platform toolkit that supports this behaviour.
Cheers,
Wolfgang
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