On Sunday 01 Apr 2012 12:02:11 Lew Wolfgang wrote:
Ah! I'm glad you mention "menu failures" Graham. This has been bugging me for more than 15-years! Does anyone remember Sun's desktop environment OpenWindows? It had a menu anchoring feature called a "pushpin".
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19455-01/806-2901/6jc3a4lqi/index.html
Click on the menu pushpin and it anchors it open until you un-push the pin. You could anchor a whole hierarchy of menus.
I've can't fathom why this dandy feature hasn't been picked up by other desktop environments! Does Sun have a copyright on it?
You could do this with KDE 1's menus, but having asked in #kde-dinosaurs it was implemented as a hack in some widget styles which caused a lot of problems when the user changed the style and the menu went away. Not sure if it worked for application menus, which would of course go away when the application providing the menu window exited. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Board, Booster, KDE Developer SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org