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

[Nicola Pero]

> 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.

Just to put things in context and make sure we all know what is real and
what is chat - this is a very nice idea (thanks Helge!), but it's not
implemented yet. :-)


> 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) !

Yes ... definitely ... when we implement it. :-)