Re: FVWM: Re: Request: Button-like menus

From: Ian Remmler <ian_at_remmler.org>
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 12:51:30 -0500

On Mon, Oct 06, 2003 at 06:09:07PM +0200, Dominik Vogt wrote:
> > How hard would it be to implement this as an option for normal
> > menus? I think it would give a nice look. I'd be happy to try
> > it myself, but I might need someone to give me an idea of what
> > needs to be changed.
>
> It's quite some work because we don't have any item specific
> options yet. You'd have to add some menu styles for button
> decorations and paint them into the menu background pixmap (the
> foreground is too slow). In addition, button specific
> decorations have to force that the background pixmap is as big as
> the menu itself. Tiling H- and Vgradients isn't possible anymore.

OK, what about just adding an option that makes separators match
the button look (i.e. extend all the way across the menu and
match the button relief look)? Then I could just put a separator
between each item. Not perfect, but it might be doable.

Thanks for the explanation.
        - Ian.

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