Re: Question about menus (usermenu, appmenu)

Josip Deanovic <[email protected]> escribió:

> On Monday 2015-08-24 05:48:08 Rodolfo García  Peñas wrote:
>> IMO we could remove these menus because:
>>
>> 1. Are not documented. The user don't know how to create/use the menu.
>> 2. Are not examples, only in the source code we can find how to
>> configure the menu.
>> 3. The line to show the menu (in the source) is difficult to reach by
>> the user.
>
> I am using the --enable-usermenu option every time when I prepare
> windowmaker for compilation but I don't think that I have ever managed
> to get some time and actually test and use the feature.
>
> The feature seem to appear in the 0.53.0 and it is documented in the
> NEWS file:
>
>
> -----BEGIN-----
> Application User Menu
> ---------------------
>
> Applications with an appicon can have a user defined menu.
>
> This menu will emulate keyboard events, and will be sent to the applications'
> window(s), thus the application must accept key combinations (CTRL+N for
> instance).
>
> To enable this feature, #define USER_MENU in src/wconfig.h and place menu
> files in ~/GNUstep/Defaults/UserMenus (/usr/local/etc/WindowMaker/UserMenus
> globally).
>
> The user menu is in PropList format and the filename is in:
> <instance name>.<class name>.menu or application's main window.
> (Example: the menu for xcalc would be - xcalc.XCalc.menu)
>
> Example user menu syntax:
>
> (
>   "Calculator",
>   ("Put 1", SHORTCUT, "2"),
>   ("Functions",
>     ("Put 2", SHORTCUT, "2"),
>     ("Put 3,4 and 5", SHORTCUT, (3,4,5))
>   ),
>   ("Exit", SHORTCUT, "Control+q")
> )
> -----END-----
>
>
> If I understand correctly this feature would make possible to use
> "the user defined menu" or keyboard shortcut on the appicon of an
> application to start emulating keyboard events on the application
> window.

Hello,

I tried to create the menu file  
(~/GNUstep/Defaults/UserMenus/xcalc.XCalc.menu) with the contents  
included in the NEWS file. I am unable to use the menu. IMO the call  
is wrong, because is set in the wSetFocusTo function and in a place  
probably unreacheable. Could someone try to show the menu?

I will think about it, perhalps is a good idea have this menu...

OTOH, the usermenu is not compiled in Debian/Ubuntu by default.

Cheers,
kix
Rodolfo García Peñas (kix)
http://www.kix.es/


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