Aw: Re: Panel context menu

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Von:     Jasper Huijsmans <jasper at xfce.org>
An:      XFCE4 development list <xfce4-dev at xfce.org>
Datum:   09.10.2005 12:38
Betreff: Re: Panel context menu

> Jannis Pohlmann schreef:
> > Hey Jasper,
> > 
> > I jus talked to Fabian about the context menu. What we are sceptical
> > about is the fact that we've got some 'lingual overhead' in the menu:
> > "Item Preferences", "Panel Preferences", "Remove this Panel", etc.
> > 
> 
> Yeah, I agree.
> 
> > Currently, we've got a kind of header in the context menu, which says
> > "Trennlinie" ("separator" in English, I guess). Wouldn't it be great to
> > group the different actions? For example:
> > 
> > 	Item
> > 	--------------------------
> > 	Preferences
> > 	Remove
> > 
> > 	Panel
> > 	--------------------------
> > 	Preferences
> > 	Manage Items
> > 	Remove
> > 
> > 	New Panel
> > 
> > 	About the Xfce Panel
> > 
> > This would make descriptions shorter (and more readable in most
> > languages). What do you think?
> 
> Look fine to me. There's no way to do spacing in menu's, I think, so we 
> will have to add separators instead.

pseudo code:
*item = menu_item_new (&menu, " ");
set_sensitive (item, FALSE);

that is, the grayish, unselectable title with an empty or one-space string instead.

> 
> It adds some extra lines with the titles, but I think it will be better.
> 
> 	Jasper
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