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