From: "Jan Djärv" <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: theophilusx@gmail.com, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Modify menu-bar help
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 18:08:12 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D67E1FC.2040408@swipnet.se> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83vd08p0tb.fsf@gnu.org>
Eli Zaretskii skrev 2011-02-25 16.54:
>> From: "Drew Adams"<drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> Cc:<jan.h.d@swipnet.se>,<emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>> Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 07:38:47 -0800
>>
>> Ah, I agree. If this is considered a bug then we should not document it.
>>
>> In my previous reply I was thinking that Emacs Dev considered this to be part of
>> the design, with no plan to fix it.
>
> As I understand from Jan, this is a GTK bug.
It is a deliberate limitation imposed on menu bars. I doubt that Gtk+ people
will consider this as a bug.
>
>> Bugs and bug workarounds generally should not be documented in the
>> manual (but could be documented in release notes etc.).
>
> We could put it in etc/PROBLEMS, I guess, if we think GTK will not
> solve this soon enough.
As they probably don't think anything is wrong, they will never "solve" this.
Jan D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-25 17:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-24 23:16 Modify menu-bar help Tim Cross
2011-02-25 0:52 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-25 5:14 ` Tim Cross
2011-02-25 7:15 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-25 9:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25 9:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25 10:03 ` Jan Djärv
2011-02-25 14:49 ` Tim Cross
2011-02-25 15:29 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-25 15:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25 15:38 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-25 15:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-02-25 17:08 ` Jan Djärv [this message]
2011-02-25 17:22 ` Drew Adams
2011-02-25 9:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-02-25 20:33 Ben Key
2011-02-25 23:58 ` Tim Cross
2011-02-26 1:04 ` Tim Cross
2011-02-26 10:21 ` Jan Djärv
2011-02-26 10:22 ` Jan Djärv
2011-02-26 22:27 ` Tim Cross
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