Hi, On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 10:05 -0800, Akkana Peck wrote: > > There are very good reasons why tear-off menus are deprecated. They > > don't solve usability issues but introduce them. > > They're deprecated? It figures that something so useful would be. Well, perhaps not deprecated in the "don't use this API" sense. Their use is discouraged. And not by the GTK+ developers but by usability experts. Tearoff menus might sometimes be useful for the power-user but for almost all users and almost all use cases they are unnecessary clutter and make the menu more difficult to use. There's a tradeoff here between being useful every once in a while for a very small minority of users and being in the way for everyone almost all of the time. Tear-off menus are disabled by default in GTK+. GIMP is one of the very few applications that enables them explicitly. If we wouldn't use it, perhaps the GTK+ developers would even have deprecated them in the meantime. At some point we should definitely try to come up with a better solution than tear-off menus for our overloaded menus. Until then we should try not to add them anywhere else. Sven _______________________________________________ Gimp-developer mailing list Gimp-developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.XCF.Berkeley.EDU/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer
