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

["Bert Timmerman" <bert.timmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all, 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:geda-user-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Karl Hammar
> Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 10:35 AM
> To: geda-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file
> 
> Colin D Bennet:
> > Actually, the GTK tear-off menus are currently broken.
> 
> You can forget about GTK tear-off. The gtk devs has 
> deprecated them and they will probably go away in the future [1].
> 
> Regards,
> /Karl Hammar
> 
> [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602882
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I already read this thread [1] some time ago (2010-ish) and see things have
not changed for the better.

No need to spend time/effort for the geda-devs to fix a broken "dead end".

Better create a non-modal popup dialog when neeeded, instead of a tear-off
menu.

Kind regards,

Bert Timmerman.

<rant in sarcastic mode>
I think tear-offs are very useful in cautiously selected GUI designs and
throwing them out of the window looks like an example of dictatorship with
backroom politcs and "to have or not to have" commit access.
If maintaining features is a "burden", then let's remove some more, or even
better, all features from GTK so to make life of the GTK-developers easier,
and this waye even more users will disapointed.
If one is not up to the job (a.k.a. wannabee), please do not accept it,
you're sitting in the seat of a better developer.
I know I'm not a (very) good C developer, so I stay out of the way.
</rant>



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