[768] in Athena User Interface
Menu titles
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue May 15 13:22:40 2001
Message-Id: <200105151722.NAA07666@egyptian-gods.MIT.EDU>
To: aui@MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 13:22:36 -0400
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
I have looked into the panel code relevant to menu titles (those
annoying things that look just like menu entries).
There's not much configurability here. The user can configure whether
there is a tearoff bar at the top (those dashed lines), whether menus
entries have icons (not just the title), and whether directory menu
entries have dots after them, but that's it. The menus themselves
can't configure anything related to the title, as far as I can tell.
As for things we could do by hacking the code:
* Removing the title altogether: I think this is a one-line
change. It does remove some functionality, though;
currently, the user can right click on the title and add the
menu to the panel as a menu or drawer, or add it to the
favorites menu, or (if it's not a system menu) edit the
menu's properties.
* Boldfacing the title: GTK labels do not provide an easy hook
for "boldface text" or even "change the font of this text."
I think it can be done, though.
* Getting rid of the folder icon: trivial, I think.
