On 26 May 2010 20:25, Paul Tan <pt75234@xxxxxxx> wrote: > For those who care or use "menu/submenu tear-off feature" > (GtkTearOffMenuItem), please read: > https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602882 > > this issue. We would also like to hear from other GTK+ developers/ > Application-developers/users on their usages of GtkTearOffMenuItem, My application, nip2, uses tearoff menus and my users tell me they like them. nip2 is a GUI for an image processing library and has to present the 300 or so operations in the library to the user. Additionally, the app includes it's own programming language which the user can use to create more operations. In total, nip2 has about 600 operations available by default. These operations are best represented to the user as text strings, something like "4-connected dilate", for example. These operations are presented in four ways: * The canonical representation is as a hierarchy, organised by function. This is presented as a large set of nested menus, up to 4 menus deep in cases I think, with tearoffs. This is an easy way to find something if you know roughly what you are looking for (all the morphological operators are appear together, for example). Tearoffs are handy if you want to repeatedly use functionally related operations and don't want to drill down 4 levels of menus each time. * A second set of menus present the operations organised by task. For example, all the operations you might find useful during image acquisition are grouped together. Again, tearoffs can save a lot of clicks. * A pull-out browser shows the operations as a flat list of operation name and operator tooltip text. There's a search box that lets you filter the operations to make it a bit more manageable. This is a good way to find things if you only have a vague idea what you want, but it takes up a huge amount of space. * ... and you can type equations, like "sobel A2", but I'm probably about the only user of the program who does this, heh. You can also bind keystrokes to operations, which can be very convenient. http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk John _______________________________________________ gtk-list mailing list gtk-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-list
