Re: short keys for plugins

On 11/28/06, tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx <tpgww@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 08:23:41 +0100
"Liviu Andronic" <landronimirc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >
> > > The "top level" items in the menu don't do anything, it's the
sub-menu
> > items that are relevant.
> > >
> > > Without getting too technical, each action has flags indicating
> > circumstances in which it may not be used. The only action named
> > "plugin.<something>" is "plugin.<menu>", which is not a real action,
it's a
> > layout instruction for the main context menu. So it's not allowed for
a
> > key-binding, and there's no sub-menu item for it. But we can't get at
the
> > internals of gtk's menu construction, to tell it to omit items for
which
> > there's no sub-menu.
>
> I'm not sure that I understood this last part, but I thought that it
would
> be nice to make these "top level" items deactivated (with a sort of
> grayish colour). I am talking about the items that are
> "top" inside the submenus.
> In practice these are not used and they distract attention, somewhat.
Sorry, same response as last time - no can do. This menu is a gtk "black
box" in the sense that there is no API for accessing or manipulating its
internals. Otherwise, it would also have been nicer to pre-select the
current item in the menu.


OK. Capito. It isn't harmful, anyway.


--
Liviu

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