[maemo-developers] Proposal for new hildon-extras widget

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

On Fri, 2010-04-16 at 10:36 +0100, Faheem Pervez wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Cornelius Hald <hald at icandy.de> wrote:
> >
> > If it's up to me, I would say we should include it in hildon-extras.
> > What are the other contributors saying? Thomas? Faheem? Andrew?
> 
> I vote to include it in hildon-extras, too :)
> 
> For one, it's certainly a lot more finger-friendly than
> hildon_gtk_menu_new () is (although, admittedly, that function is
> meant more for popup menus and the like...).
> 
> When writing your own program, using HildonAppMenu with GtkButton and
> its derivatives and only including the needed menu entries (as per the
> Maemo HIG) is easy. When porting a program that uses a GtkMenuBar with
> *lots* of entries, not so much.

Me, and others, are very well aware of that :(

Aniello