[Geany-Devel] Toggle menu and status bars

[Matthew Brush]

On 2016-07-06 05:37 PM, Lex Trotman wrote:
> We could add the hamburger button to the toolbar so it could hide the menu.
>

Not everyone has the toolbar visible. And it'd have to be visible in the 
default toolbar layout (-1) or else people who do have it visible 
wouldn't realize they had to customize the toolbar in order to get their 
menu back. Additionally, anyone who has already customized their toolbar 
would have to somehow get their toolbar.xml file overridden by the 
default one. Otherwise, we'd have to add special code to add it 
unconditionally to the toolbar when the menu is hidden, which would 
require special casing to ensure it's not overflowed off of the toolbar 
and such. Of course then people would want preferences to disable that 
behaviour, etc.

IMO, adding a "Show Menu" item to the right-click menus is a simple and 
effective way to restore a lost menu bar.

P.S. Personally I have no reason to hide the main menu, I just put the 
message window on the right to use all that wasted screen-estate, 
leaving ample vertical space for the menu/toolbar/code.

Cheers,
Matthew Brush