Re: Plans for ahead

[Matt Rice]

On Mon, Nov 30, 2015 at 9:42 AM, Robert Slover <rjslover@me.com> wrote:
>> On Nov 30, 2015, at 04:37, Alessandro Sangiuliano <alex22_7@hotmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> I think I expressed bad my problem. The Menus appears when I click on the 
>> relative App's window, so they are working as expected; but if I have 10 
>> windows on the screen, organized to fill all the screen, as a tiled window 
>> manager does, when I will click on an     App's window, the relative menu 
>> have to appear somewhere, but the screen is filled so it will overlaps a 
>> window of another App that I probably need to read, so I have to move the 
>> menu to another position. This also would happen on a NeXTSTEP system, 
>> because is how they designed the architecture of their DE. I'm sorry, but I 
>> don't like at all this design, it's also something about tastes, but it is 
>> also something about "functionality" if you also think about the Apps' icons
>
> Alex,
>
> I can only think that this would be a real problem on a small, single screen, 
> but that may be the reality you have to deal with. On OpenStep at least, 
> which I have ran at one point on a tiny (mid-1990s) laptop screen, you could 
> position the menu basically off the edge of the screen (leaving just a few 
> pixels sticking up from the bottom, is how I did it). You can then get at the 
> app's menu as a context menu by right-clicking anywhere on the current app or 
> desktop where there wasn't an interactive element (field, button, slider, 
> etc.).
>
> I'm not sure how well GNUstep emulates this currently, since all of my 
> personal machines are headless.

I don't believe that it currently handles the last case, (right
clicking on the desktop where there isn't an interactive element)...

due to a combination of 2 things:  most window managers e.g. window
maker receive the right click and pop up a window, I wrote a wm once
which would forward this event to the currently focused window to pop
up a menu

the second part was getting GNUstep to not ignore this event.  IIRC I
got it to pop up the menu, but ran into some difficulty with further
tracking and never got it fully working.