On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 11:21:59AM +0100, Wolfgang Thaller wrote:
I maintain that a good cross-platform toolkit designed for Windows, X11 and Mac OS should provide some abstraction to bridge the differences in the behaviour of the different platforms. If I remember correlctly, Tk, Java and Qt were all first designed for X11 and then ported to Windows and Mac OS. Hence they had to use the "let's use the front window's menu bar" hack for Mac OS.
Yes, I think we can be pragmatic about some issues. Going for exactly one menu bar is a reasonable assumption for all platforms. You can force a lot into a Gtk application because there is no real style guide. An application with nearly several menu bars is Gimp: The menu bar for each drawing Window is hidden in a context menu. I think Gimp is like WinAmp (or Microsoft Media Player): It violates any common sense and style guide, but it's so widespread that you have to live with it. Let's be pragmatic and give programmers reasonable freedom: exactly one menu bar. Axel.