Don't hide menus

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 06:12:44PM +0200, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:
> Le 14/10/2023 à 18:09, Jürgen Spitzmüller a écrit :
> > As a GNOME user I am quite used to this sort of UI (the search bar in
> > the shell follows a similar spirit and is great for keyboard
> > aficionados).
> 
> Right. I miss the application menus there, though.
> 
> > I suspect it is not easy to implement this properly, though. And I
> > suspect it will trigger once more the critique that we go again our own
> > UI path instead of duplicating what popular text processors do.
> 
> Many environments do that. I wonder if there are hooks to feed the OS
> version of the tool.
> 
> > BTW this "HUD" will only show actions that are enabled in the given
> > context, right (coming back to the issue that is at stake in this
> > thread)?
> 
> I guess it is our choice to make, but I'd say yes.

Here I would be more inclined to say that we should show the disabled
items, since I think space is less of a concern. If the user searches
"cancel", it would be user-friendly to show "cancel export (only enabled
if an export is in progress)".

Scott
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