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

Josip Deanovic <[email protected]> escribió:

> 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-----

Yes!!

I downloaded wterm (http://sourceforge.net/p/wterm/code/) and I can  
see the menu.
Thanks a lot. Amazing! Image attached.

>
> 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?

IMO we should hold this menu.

Cheers,
kix.


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