Re: Moving "Menu Bar" and "Tooltips" to a specific window.

[João Paulo Labegalini de Carvalho]

> A smart Brazilian currently at the University of Alberta who wants to work
> on
> something good.  Joao, what do you think?  Do you have a team at Alberta?
>

CD, thanks for the kind words.

I don't have a team, but I am going to reserve time weekly to work on Emacs.

 > > In Emacs, the "Tool Bar" can be displayed with the options "None", "On
> > the Top", "On the Bottom", "On the Left", "On the Right".
> > Could the "Menu Bar" be made to do the same?

>From your problem description, it seems that showing the "Menu Bar" in a
different side of the screen (top, bottom, left, or right) would not help
you in the general case.
For example, if you have 2 or 3 windows stacked vertically and your cursor
is on the top most one, then having the "Menu bar" at the bottom is of
little help.

I believe the suggestions from Pankaj and Stefan to use either <f10> or
C-mouse-3 are good solutions to your problem.

Would a text-only version of the "Menu Bar" be of interest? That way we can
have a keychord to open a buffer with the menu items and navigate as in
*Help*/*info* buffers.
The benefit of a text-only "Menu Bar" is that we don't need to rely on GTK
or any other graphical window API.

-- 
João Paulo L. de Carvalho
Ph.D Computer Science |  IC-UNICAMP | Campinas , SP - Brazil
Postdoctoral Research Fellow | University of Alberta | Edmonton, AB - Canada
joao.carvalho@ic.unicamp.br
joao.carvalho@ualberta.ca