Re: Last change in NSMenuView.m

[Wolfgang Lux]

Germán Arias wrote:

> > The change to open menus with their bottom at the mouse cursor looks
> > less convincing to me. The real problem with menus is that the gui
> > blindly expects the window manager to place menus at the intended
> > position and simply ignores information from the backend when the
> > window manager has decided to place the menu differently. Rather than
> > fixing the problem, your patch just alleviates it by reducing the
> > chance that the window manager interferes with the gui's placement.
> >
> > > Try the patch, add changes, discuss the code or apply it. Regards.
>
> Are you saying that the mouse should be moved to a new position? the
> correct position of course. Instead remain at the initial position?

No. What I meant is that NSMenu should update its own frame to respect  
where the window manager has placed the menu panel.

Of course, Chris's suggestion to use override-redirect windows to  
enforce our menu placement would be even better. However, it looks  
like this will need additions to the gui-back interface, since I see  
no obvious place in the current backend interface to tell it that an  
override redirect window should be used.

Wolfgang