Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

[Kai-Martin Knaak <knaak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Felix Ruoff wrote:

> I came to the point, where I think, a 'mixed menu generation' would be 
> nice. A lot of fixed menu-items, hard coded, for all this items like 
> 'Open', 'Copy', ..., and some menu-items generated by (g)pcb-menu.res. 

IMHO, there are different, only loosly related aspects to the menu topic:

1) Order: 
   a) Currently, many items are not quite where de facto standards
    would have them. 
   b) Some items like those that implement find-features are almost hidden.
   c) Some frequently used items are on second level, which means unnecessary 
    hassle. 

2) Completeness: 
   a) There are some features that cannot be accessed via the menu
   b) Some actions can 

3) Technique:
  a) No way to grey-out menu items when not applicable.
  b) No way to insert a menu item with a plug-in
  c) Standard GTK accel key modification on the fly does not quite work
  d) While menues can be ripped off and used as a toolbox, they don't 
  remember their state beyond the end of the session. This essentially 
  prevents persistent user configuration of the GUI. 


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