[Geany-Devel] Toggle menu and status bars

[Steven Blatnick]

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.

Thanks,

Steve

On 07/04/2016 10:23 AM, Colomban Wendling wrote:
> Le 02/07/2016 à 11:08, Vasiliy Faronov a écrit :
>> Hi,
>>
>> Most of the time, when using Geany, I don't need the menu and status
>> bars; they are just noise. But occasionally I want to check the status
>> bar (e.g. for the line/column number) or browse the menu. So I want to
>> toggle their visibility with a keystroke.
>>
>> I wrote a simple plugin for that: https://github.com/vfaronov/geany-togglebars
>>
>> The problem is, the menu and status bars are not exposed in
>> geany.main_widgets, so I have to find them manually, which makes the
>> plugin brittle as it relies on a specific window layout.
>>
>> Perhaps there is a better way to do it?
> You could use a more solid resolve_widget() function, that doesn't rely
> on the layout, something like that:
>
>> def resolve_widget(widget, expected_type):
>>      if isinstance(widget, expected_type):
>>          return widget
>>      elif isinstance(widget, Gtk.Container):
>>          for child in widget.get_children():
>>              ret = resolve_widget(child, expected_type)
>>              if ret:
>>                  return ret
>>      return None
> Also, your plugin is a bit dangerous for the new user if I read it
> correctly: you do not bind the keybinding by default (which is good),
> but you hide the menubar by default.  This means that the user enabling
> your plugin might be totally lost with no way of recovering his/her
> menubar to even access the preferences and set a keybinding.
>
> I guess you did that because you didn't wanna bother about a
> configuration file for saving the state for such a little thing you
> probably didn't mean to publish so much, but if you do want to publish
> it it'd be important to resolve this.
>
> Regards,
> Colomban
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