Menu order in Spanish (and others?)

[Vincent Untz]

On Tue, September 27, 2005 13:01, Ricardo Pérez López wrote:
> El mar, 27-09-2005 a las 12:41 +0200, Vincent Untz escribió:
>> On Tue, September 27, 2005 12:19, Ricardo Pérez López wrote:
>> > "MenuEditorPanelIntegration - Integrate the menu editor into the
>> > gnome-panel (the menu itself), to let the user changing the menu
>> > directly (using the right-click, for instance), and the ability to
>> sort
>> > the menu items arbitrary (now the items are sorted alphabetically,
>> > only)."
>>
>> Sounds interesting (and to be honest, I've wondered about doing this
>> upstream). This would make menu editing easier. I'm not sure how to
>> change
>> the sort order using only context menus, though (and there's the problem
>> that context menus on menu items is really something that's not supposed
>> to really work well with GTK+...).
>
> Maybe the "right-click & context-menu" is not the best approach, but I
> think it could be a natural solution. For example:
>
> - Removing a menu item: Right-click over the item, and select "Remove
> from menu".

We had this before we started using the menu spec. There's even a bug
for this in GNOME bugzilla (can't find it... where's my bugzilla-fu?)

> - Adding a menu item in a sub-menu: Right-click over the submenu, and
> select "Add a new item".
>
> - Adding a menu item/submenu in the main menu: Right-click over the
> "Applications" word and select "Add a new item/submenu".

Hrm... And what should it do? Open a dialog like the "new launcher"
dialog? We can do this.

> - Arbitrary sort of menu items: could be done simply
> dragging-and-dropping the menu items across the menu, for example. (I
> don't know if GTK+ supports drag&drop of menu items...)

I don't think GTK+ supports this.

>> Also, there's been a lot of discussion in GNOME about the context menus
>> in menus. I can give a lot of pointers to soem bugs if you're interested
>> ;-)
>
> How many bugs? Are those bugs difficult to fix? I think this is a very
> interesting thing, because some people likes GNOME 2.8 over GNOME 2.10
> due to the lack of menu changing facilities (until smeg arrived, of
> course).

This is a useful tracker for menu bugs:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162009

These bugs might interest you:
 + Should menu items have right click popups?
     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=84555
 + Actions menu should be editable
     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94120
 + Difficulties in editing panel menus from context menu
     http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=93506

Note that there are some plans upstream about the panel menus. But
there's not enough time to make code from these plans... Contributions
are welcome :-)

Vincent

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