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From: adatta@odin.wright.edu (Amitava Datta)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: Re: Window Managers and Client Menus
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Date: 25 Sep 89 00:20:32 GMT
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janssen@holmes (Bill Janssen) writes

> I'm not sure I understand the usefulness of putting the menus in the
> window manager (aside from being able to switch entire toolkit styles
> by switching window managers, which might be thought of as an advantage).

Correct. You can have a more uniform user interface this way.

> The client program would presumably link against some menu library, which
> would handle defining the window properties with the menu definitions
> in them (or a filename, but the menu defs right in the properties was
> a better idea).  What is the difference to the client or the developer
> whether the library communicates with some menu manager to have the
> menus presented, or does it directly?

No difference at all. Right now we don't have such a facility in X. It
is not a standard yet among WMs.
Amitava Datta (adatta@cs.wright.edu)