[PD-dev] rebuilding the menus

[Hans-Christoph Steiner]

So the way that the menus are currently built is pretty whacky.  I want  
to rewrite the menu handling part of u_main.tk to change a few things.   
I want to know if this is going to conflict with anything that anyone  
else is working on.

First, each platform's menus would be clearly laid out in one place.   
This would make it very easy to tailor the menu structure to guidelines  
for each OS.

The menus would be built only at launch, except where then need to be  
built dynamically (i.e. the Windows menu, which is broken on Mac OS X  
anyway).  For example, the Help menu is rebuilt after each use.  AFAIK,  
this is unneeded and makes the menus respond sluggishly.

On a related topic, I just created a patch against 0.38-3/0.38-4 that  
fixes the "Browser..." and nested menu troubles on Mac OS X.  Its in  
CVS:  packages/darwin_app/patches/extended_help_menu.patch

I will start working on 0.38-4, then port the changes to 0.39.

.hc

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