Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!intercon!amanda@mermaid.intercon.com From: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Newsgroups: comp.windows.news Subject: Re: Here Menu! Message-ID: <1626@intercon.com> Date: 13 Dec 89 21:54:18 GMT References: Sender: news@intercon.com Reply-To: amanda@mermaid.intercon.com (Amanda Walker) Lines: 20 In article , montnaro@spyder.crd.ge.com (Skip Montanaro) writes: > I'd like to see a "Here Menu!" function that would cause any pinned menus to > float to the top of the stack. Given the existing mouse semantics, I suspect > it might best be tied to a PointButton double-click over the root window. > Some might prefer to have pinnable menus that won't let themselves get > covered up, thus preserving current mouse semantics. Well, the idea of pinned menus being windows that "float" on top of everything except other pinned menus seems to work pretty well on the Mac. It seems a little odd for about the first 5 minutes, and then your brain figures out what's going on and it becomes quite nice. This does, however, involve redoing parts of the window manager, which could range from easy to impossible, depending on how pinned menus are actually implemented. My first guess would be that under X11/NeWS, it wouldn't be too bad, but on a vanilla X11 server it would be pretty difficult. Amanda Walker InterCon Systems Corporation --