Re: [PATCH v6 11/15] ui/cocoa: Add Services menu

[Christian Schoenebeck]

On Freitag, 18. Februar 2022 18:49:55 CET Akihiko Odaki wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 19, 2022 at 2:33 AM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org> 
wrote:
> > On Tue, 15 Feb 2022 at 08:26, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé via
> > 
> > <qemu-devel@nongnu.org> wrote:
> > > From: Akihiko Odaki <akihiko.odaki@gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > Services menu functionality of Cocoa is described at:
> > > https://developer.apple.com/design/human-interface-guidelines/macos/exte
> > > nsions/services/> 
> > I tested this, and while it does create a Services menu, none of
> > the items in it seem very relevant to QEMU (on my machine, there's
> > Activity Monitor, Time Profile Active Application, and some other
> > software-development related things). In fact, every app I looked
> > at exposed the same list of things in the Services menu. So I'm
> > not sure why this is even an application-specific menu that needs
> > specific code to support, rather than something system-wide that
> > Apple automatically adds to the UI where it wants it.
> > 
> > -- PMM
> 
> Actually I wanted to use those services from Xcode to debug QEMU. I
> have no idea why Apple decided to do it this way, but an application
> template from Xcode does the same although it uses an interface file
> instead of Objective-C code.
> 
> Regards,
> Akihiko Odaki

Yes, that appearance of the "Services" menu is normal. I think the idea was to 
leave it completely to app developers how their app menus looks like exactly, 
instead of Apple injecting something there without being asked.

There are much bigger oddities in macOS's menu design than that IMO.

Best regards,
Christian Schoenebeck