Re: menu-bar: disable items when no frame visible

[David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>]

On 28 Nov 2005, at 22:44, Juri Linkov wrote:
>>
>> (Recall what the OS X desktop looks like.)
>
> I see this is not possible on OS X.  But then I wonder why do you make
> more menu items disabled for non-visible frames in your patch, if on
> OS X, where the menu bar always applies to the selected frame,  
> there is
> no way to have a menu with disabled items?

The menu-bar doesn't go away when no frame is shown. It is still  
there, showing the state of the selected frame (even though it is  
hidden).

And  you need the menu bar in this situation, because might need to  
open a file from the File menu, for example. On most other systems  
that I know, the application is quit when you close the last window -  
that is logical because there would be no way to show the menu. That  
is not the case in general for apps on the Mac. Now, Emacs still  
quits when you close the last frame. But you can hide it (or minimize  
it) just fine. That's when you have the menu with the disabled items.