Decorators

[Matthew Woehlke]

Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 May 2009 20:29:35 Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Maciej Pilichowski wrote:
>>>> It is recommended that decorations provide menu placement as an
>>>> option, per container type.
>>> Hmm, so shared menu is not a global option but per decoration? In
>>> such case I opt (strongly :-D) for "it is required...".
>> While I agree in principle, I vote for deferring to Lubos on this
>> :-). 
> 
> I am thinking about problems in a future. If it is "required" I can 
> post a _bug_ report for it, if it is "recommended" I can post a 
> _wish_ report only. And I already know that it is likely I get the 
> answer "nah, do your own deco". I am not fan of options but I think 
> providing options is much more reasonable than creating hundreds of 
> deco styles (themes, and so on) to put this or that detail in 
> different place.
> 
> Every deco should be prepared to handle shared menu.

Okay, you convince me. I need to re-write that section anyway (I realize 
"push to parent" doesn't really work, it is the same as parent pulling 
up from child and so is redundant). Remind me if I forget to make this 
change also.

>> First... is it okay if you can change it per container? If yes,
>> then I think all I would change is to add:
>>
>> Desktop (root) window should...
>> (*) ...always shows menu in child window
>> ( ) ...always show menus at the top of the container
>> ( ) ...use the default setting for its container type
> 
> Ok, done, I changed to checkboxes, because other containers use 
> checkboxes too.

...except for desktop (root) is really a tri-state :-).

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