Idea about extended menus

[Edscott Wilson García]

On Vie 29 Mar 2002 12:30, Dmitry DELTA Malykhanov wrote:
>
> BTW, as far as I know CDE simply starts dtfile to show the icon box,
> which Joe was talking about. So, maybe that shouldn't be a feature of
> panel, but rather xftree. For example, for KDE/GNOME menus all we have
> to do is to have xtree open the /usr/share/apps dir (or whatever it
> is, I don't have KDE/GNOME). Of course, xftree should uderstand how to
> display *.desktop files. Edscott, what do you think?

Displaying the KDE/GNOME menus by means of xftree sounds like a very good 
idea.  I suppose it could be accomplished by making xftree talk with the 
kde-menu and gnome-menu modules (and spawning these modules when it's running 
on a remote host where xfwm is not running). Or maybe it would be better just 
to point xftree in the right direction. Jasper should know what's best here. 

Edscott

>
> And back to the sub-menus. Though I still think that having 80 apps in the
> panel menus is not sane (this is definitely not a typical number of
> frequently used apps), I can't say that I hate the concept of (somehow)
> nested menus. Actually I hate the idea of extra menus appearing of the
> screen. But sub-menus which won't take extra space may be good. Something
> like this:
>
> first level:         when you click on <submenu link>:
>                      (this is the same menu with different items)
>                           +--------------+
>  +--------------+         | * subitem 3  | click
>
>  | *  item 3    |  click  !<submenu link>! -----> (and so on...)
>  |<submenu link>|  -----> | * subitem 2  |
>  | *  item 2    |         | * subitem 1  |
>  | *  item 1    |  <----- |<"back" link> |
>
> -----/\-----------  click -----/\-------------
>    +----+                    +----+
>    ! i  !                    ! i  !
>    !  i ! XFCE Panel         !  i ! XFCE Panel
>    +----+                    +----+
> ------------------        --------------------
>
> I can try to prepare some "proof of the concept" code...
>
> What do you think?
>
> On 29 Mar 2002, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> > 	I forgot to mention in my initial reply to Peeter's post that I like
> > the idea for only one level of submenus.
> >
> > 	What I'd really like to see is the ability to have a button/icon on the
> > panel be able to open a window of related icons of programs.  The way
> > CDE does it.  i.e. you click on the configuration icon on the mail panel
> > (you know the one with the little icon that has a pallet, moue, "T" &
> > window buttons in it) and a window would open with a set of icons in it
> > that ran all the config type programs (xfpager, xfmouse, xfsound,
> > backdrop, xfgnome, gfx. conf, screensaver, etc.).
> >
> > 	This would be my much preferred way of nesting things.  Yes, I know,
> > it's the way CDE does it but I never thought there was anything wrong
> > with it in the first place.