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From: janssen@holmes (Bill Janssen)
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Subject: Re: Window Managers and Client Menus
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Date: 20 Sep 89 19:04:02 GMT
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In-reply-to: don@BRILLIG.UMD.EDU (Don Hopkins)

I'm not sure I understand the usefulness of putting the menus in the
window manager (aside from being able to switch entire toolkit styles
by switching window managers, which might be thought of as an advantage).
The client program would presumably link against some menu library, which
would handle defining the window properties with the menu definitions
in them (or a filename, but the menu defs right in the properties was
a better idea).  What is the difference to the client or the developer
whether the library communicates with some menu manager to have the
menus presented, or does it directly?

Bill
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