Using GtkPopoverMenu as a GtkMenu replacement

[carrotIndustries (Lukas K.)]

@ebassi

I don’t understand what this means.

In menus, the item the cursor is over is displayed inverted (dark/blue background, light text). Listboxes only display items in this style if it was selected by clicking.

@ebassi

You can use GtkPopover:autohide .

Reading the docs, this only appears to apply to clicks, not to letting go of the mouse button.

@ebassi

You also don’t need to port to GTK4 right away: GTK3 isn’t going anywhere. Maybe in a couple of years we’re going to have more convenience API that will make your use case easier to port to.

Well, since I’m not going to simultaneously maintain a GTK3 and GTK4 version of my app, I’ll have to wait until Gtk 4 is available in all major distros, especially the more slow-moving ones. Rather than complaining when Gtk4 has reached maturity, I prefer getting the discussion going as early as possible.

@ebassi

and popovers, when you need menu-like behaviour.

If that’s an option, popovers should be able to faithfully emulate the behavior of GtkMenu such as activating an item when letting go of the mouse button.

@ebassi

when setting a menu model, we are going to add widgets internally, so we can’t distinguish between a widget that was added by you and one added by a model,

GtkListBox is good example that manually adding widgets and setting models can coexist. Just make it clear that widgets shouldn’t be touched if a model is set.