Re: Menu (Was: Re: Unimplemented AppKit classes)

[Helge Hess]

Thomas Cherryhomes wrote:
> RENAISSANCE HAS TO DIFFERENTIATE BETWEEN THE TWO DIFFERENT MENU LAYOUTS! What's
> the point of a single mark-up when you have to do things twice, anyway? It
> simply does not take long to do proper nibs for a given UI...

The question is the goal. If you have the time and the ambition to write 
two different UIs, I certainly agree that it makes sense to write a UI 
for OSX and to write a UI for GNUstep.
But if you don't, R. (too complicated name ;-) - like Mozilla XUL, helps 
you to build a UI that works on both platforms and still looks 95% as 
good as a native UI.

And: no - the R. user doesn't have to differentiate between two menu 
layouts. I guess you are mainly referring to positions of standard 
menues ? R. is all about abstraction, eg if you want to have a "quit" 
menu, just say

  <quit-menu/>

and R. will be able to place it according to the platform style guide.

Actually R. layouts will often look better than a lot of "manual" 
layouts ! Why ? Because R. can *enforce* style guides (eg place a quit 
menu item always in the same place) !

R. rocks ! ;-)

greetings
  Helge