Re: NSMacintoshInterfaceStyle

[Daniel Patrick]

Philippe C.D. Robert wrote:

> On Sun,  3 Feb 2002 07:41:17 +0100 (CET)
> Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> wrote:
>
> > If  I  remember well,  tearing  off  Macintosh  menus is  done  simply
> > dragging (or  command-draggin) from the  menu out to the  desktop. The
> > normal behavior of Macintosh menu does  not allow for any place in the
> > menu to  click, because as soon as  you release the mouse  button in a
> > menu or menubar, the menu closes.
> >
> > Now I can't say about MacOSX menu, I don't have used it yet.
>
> AFAIK in Mac OS X you cannot tear menus off, this is deprecated. It only worked 
> in Rhapsody and Mac OS X Server 1.x
>
> -Phil


It is depreciated in OSX.  However, submenu's off the horizontal menu 
have some 'dead space' at the top that could be utilized as a point to 
grab the menu and tear it off.  My concern is that this may not be 
intuitive enough.  Torn off's could look just like NeXT menu's.  This 
would allow the best of both menutypes.

Another problem that I see with the NSMacintoshInterfaceStyle is that 
OSX relies on the app to display it's title as the first menu item where 
GNUstep uses the title of the app's main menu.  Anyone have any idea's 
as to how this could be represented on the horizontal menu?

For now, though, I'll see about putting some tear-off's into the mac 
interface style.  Shouldn't be tough, since I disabled it in the first 
place.  (:

Dan