Re: Help with appmenu [was: Re: Question about menus (usermenu, appmenu)]

On Tuesday 2015-08-25 07:54:03 Rodolfo García  Peñas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> ok, the usermenu is now clear. IMO, we can improve this menu, for  
> example to send text to xterms or similar (menu with "ssh -l user  
> example.com" could be nice).
> 
> But my problem now is related to appmenu. I don't know how this menu  
> is used by the user, and how is configured. It includes X11 calls to  
> create a menu and store it in wapp->menu (usermenu uses the same  
> pointer).
> 
> Help about it is very appreciated.

I have found this excerpt in NEWS file, it is related to Shared
application icons but there is some info about appmenu:

-----BEGIN-----
As a side note: wterm can use the shared appicon feature as long as it
doesn't use the appmenu (will do this by default). If you start it
using the appmenu (wterm -wm) it will disable the shared appicon
feature because apps with appmenus are incompatible with this feature.

If an application is a GNUstep application or if it has an appmenu, it's
detected automatically and the shared appicon is disabled automatically
without any user intervention or need to configure anything.
-----END-----


I have installed some GNUstep applications just to check their window
properties. I would say that what makes a GNUstep application recognizable
is the WM_CLASS set to GNUstep.

From the excerpt above I would speculate that appmenu is not a
configurable option which could be used for any application but the
feature of an application.
I am speculating here but it might be that an application need to
create a window of a docked type and with some appropriate hints (skip 
taskbar, skip pager, sticky and so on) which would then act as an appmenu.

Is there something in a code that would support this?

-- 
Josip Deanovic


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