Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-21 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Andrew Poelstra wrote: > The gtk gui needs to be completely revamped. There are many individual > things to be done, but we don't have enough developers to get to them > all soon. If the number of active devs is the reason for stagnation, then a plan to foster future developer generations should

Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-20 Thread Bert Timmerman
Hi all, > -Original Message- > From: geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org > [mailto:geda-user-boun...@moria.seul.org] On Behalf Of Karl Hammar > Sent: Saturday, August 20, 2011 10:35 AM > To: geda-user@moria.seul.org > Subject: Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu

Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-20 Thread Karl Hammar
Colin D Bennet: > Actually, the GTK tear-off menus are currently broken. You can forget about GTK tear-off. The gtk devs has deprecated them and they will probably go away in the future [1]. Regards, /Karl Hammar [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602882

Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-20 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Fri, Aug 19, 2011 at 01:15:32PM -0700, Colin D Bennett wrote: > On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:44:12 +0200 > Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > > d) While menues can be ripped off and used as a toolbox, they > > don't remember their state beyond the end of the session. This > > essentially prevents persistent

Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-19 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: > 2) Completeness: >a) There are some features that cannot be accessed via the menu >b) Some actions can ^ This should have read: b) Some actions can use only some of its parameters via the menu. ---<)kaimartin(>--- -- Kai

Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-19 Thread Colin D Bennett
On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 16:44:12 +0200 Kai-Martin Knaak wrote: d) While menues can be ripped off and used as a toolbox, they > don't remember their state beyond the end of the session. This > essentially prevents persistent user configuration of the GUI. Actually, the GTK tear-off menus are current

Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-19 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Felix Ruoff wrote: > I came to the point, where I think, a 'mixed menu generation' would be > nice. A lot of fixed menu-items, hard coded, for all this items like > 'Open', 'Copy', ..., and some menu-items generated by (g)pcb-menu.res. IMHO, there are different, only loosly related aspects to

Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-14 Thread Felix Ruoff
Hello Kai-Martin, Am 14.08.2011 21:16, schrieb Kai-Martin Knaak: Felix Ruoff wrote: By the way: Improving the menu-structure of pcb was the second task, where I started to code for pcb. But then I found so many other things to improve, that this will still need a lot of time :-). I might chime

Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-14 Thread Kai-Martin Knaak
Felix Ruoff wrote: > By the way: Improving the menu-structure of pcb was the second task, > where I started to code for pcb. But then I found so many other things > to improve, that this will still need a lot of time :-). I might chime in and start working toward a better menu. The current menu

Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-14 Thread Felix Ruoff
Am 14.08.2011 18:45, schrieb Andrew Poelstra: I agree with this. The Media variable isn't used, it should be gone. Ditto for the --menu-file option. Honestly, we should probably get rid of --pcb-menu as well, unless someone wants to put in the effort to: 1. Unify lesstif/gtk handling of it.

Re: gEDA-user: Commandline option --menu-file

2011-08-14 Thread Andrew Poelstra
On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 06:22:48PM +0200, Felix Ruoff wrote: > Hello, > > I found a commandline option '--menu-file' in the sources (main.c) > which seems to be broken. (The expected functionality is given with > the option --pcb-menu). > Even this other option is untouched in lesstif, and in Gtk