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[Uday S Reddy <u.s.reddy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tim Cross writes:

> So, what operations is it that people need frequently that require the emacs
> menubar? I can see that maybe a menubar user may want the edit and possibly
> the buffer menus, but the rest? 

Oh, anything really.  The whole point of using a mail client inside
Emacs is to have the power of Emacs for doing all the other things.
Some of the frequent things I needed do were to browse files or
directories, run shells etc.  (I don't use the menubar much now, but I
used it a lot when I had RSI and did things by speech.)

> If VM users need to switch to the emacs menu
> frequently, I'd argue that what should happen is VM should not disable those
> menu items and have them in the menubar - this would be much more convenient
> that having to frequently toggle the whole menu-bar. 

I agree, but that is too large a project to contemplate right now.
The whole menubar has to be rethought.  But, our first task is to
restore VM to its original form.  As I said, GTK users can have the
work-around, but there is no reason for all the other users to put up
with this overhead.

Cheers,
Uday