[Geany-Devel] Toggle menu and status bars

[Steven Blatnick]

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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