Re: FVWM: Re: Request: Button-like menus

From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 09:06:55 +0200

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 12:51:30PM -0500, Ian Remmler wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 06:09:07PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > > How hard would it be to implement this as an option for normal
> > > menus? I think it would give a nice look. I'd be happy to try
> > > it myself, but I might need someone to give me an idea of what
> > > needs to be changed.
> >
> > It's quite some work because we don't have any item specific
> > options yet. You'd have to add some menu styles for button
> > decorations and paint them into the menu background pixmap (the
> > foreground is too slow). In addition, button specific
> > decorations have to force that the background pixmap is as big as
> > the menu itself. Tiling H- and Vgradients isn't possible anymore.
>
> OK, what about just adding an option that makes separators match
> the button look (i.e. extend all the way across the menu and
> match the button relief look)? Then I could just put a separator
> between each item. Not perfect, but it might be doable.

But it would screw up all the menu size calculations. I prefer a
clean patch to a hack.

Ciao

Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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