Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!ncrlnk!wright!odin!adatta From: adatta@odin.wright.edu (Amitava Datta) Newsgroups: comp.windows.x Subject: Re: Window Managers and Client Menus Message-ID: <674@thor.wright.EDU> Date: 25 Sep 89 00:20:32 GMT References: <8909181736.AA04699@gaak.LCS.MIT.EDU> <3124@arisia.Xerox.COM> Sender: news@wright.EDU Lines: 18 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)