On Don, 2017-02-16 at 11:56 +0100, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:
> On 2017-02-16 11:41, Roman Haefeli wrote:
> >
> > Hey all
> >
> > While we're at it, during testing font metrics on different
> > platforms,
> > I noticed that menus are quite different. On Linux, the menu bar
> > height
> > is 30px, on Windows 19px. Personally, I find the 30px ugly and too
> > large. 
> >
> > Can this be made consistent across platforms, too?
>
> shouldn't it be made consistent with the various platforms instead?
> that is: if he new iOS look-and-feel mandates 42px menu-bars, users
> should get them - rather than 12px to be consistent with BeOS.
>
> apart from that, I agree that the menu bar on Linux is uglishly high.
>
> but my point is: it is ugly because it is higher than the menu-bars
> of
> other applications on my Linux system, not because i enjoy staring at
> the w32 version in my spare time.

I see your point about being consistent within a certain platform. And
am I happy that I'm not the only one who finds Pd's menu bars on Linux
too high. Is that also configured in pd-gui.tcl? I wasn't able to spot
it at a first quick glance.

Roman