Yeah, the autohide until mouse-over is a simple solution, but it is kinda jumpy whenever I go to my MATE system tray and cross over the menu area.  I could make it wait longer before opening, but then that would feel clunky.  Right now, it expands for a few seconds until a menu is clicked, then keeps it open until the menu has been exited.  The other problem is the toolbar which I put inline with the menus doesn't stay visible long enough to use.

We should put in core geany or a plugin the ability to move the menu to the toolbar in a single icon like Chrome, instead or in addition to the existing functionality to move the toolbar to the menubar.  However, that solution doesn't reduce the valuable vertical real estate.  Darn wide screens nowadays ;-)

Thanks,

Steve

On 07/05/2016 05:51 PM, Matthew Brush wrote:
On 2016-07-05 08:31 AM, Steven Blatnick wrote:
I've wondered about this feature myself.  My temporary solution was to
write a plugin that hides the menu bar until mouse over, like the Start
bar used to be configurable in Windows.  I haven't had a chance to
update all of my plugins to the latest geany, but if you care to look at
the plugin, you can see it here
<https://github.com/sblatnick/geany-plugins/blob/master/hide-menu/src/hide-menu.c>.


Alternatively, I thought the best idea would be a single icon, like
chrome's menu icon.  The problem is finding a place for it that doesn't
occupy an entire row or column of screen space.


When I implemented this in Mousepad, I just had it add a menu item to the right-click menu to allow turning it back on whenever the menu bar was hidden. The auto hide/show seems also like a good idea.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush
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