smooth transitions between menus ? (extend XEmbed ?)

[Matthias Clasen]

On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 03:03 +0100, Mildred wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Currently, I notice a "problem" in the gnome-panel (and I believe it's
> the same for others desktops as well). When I click in a menu item in
> the panel, a menu opens, when I place my mouse on another menu item,
> the other menu pops up. But when I put my mouse on a menu item in
> another plugin, the menu doesn't show up.
> 
[...]

> So I think this may be the responsibility of the XEmbed
> <http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/xembed-spec> spec to
> improve this by allowing to communicate the menu status (opened or not)
> to let the embeded window to open a menu on mouseover and tell the
> embedding window that it has to close its menu.

I believe Ryan Lortie has worked out the necessary changes to implement 
a "global menu" across xembed clients like this. CCing him for his
insights.