[Geany-Devel] Toggle menu and status bars

[Matthew Brush]

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