GlobalMenuBar

A single global menu bar would solve two problems.

1. Where do we put those meta-tools

What do you mean by meta-tools? What's wrong with the right-click menu? --bb

1. How can we provide a multi-document structure while maintaining a single document view?

I think my latest changes more or less take care of that. There's no single "main" window, but whatever document is on top gets all attention from dialogs. All dialogs are unsinkable. It's different from GIMP (although the difference is only in behavior, while visibly it's almost the same) and from windows programs (no empty window as parent of all documents) - but I like it and so far I see no problems with this approach. --bb

This menu would take the shape of having all Major menu items enumerated horizontally ( ala windows and the mac ). Below those menu items would rest a horizontal toolbar with buttons for file operations, clipboard maintainence and dialog / palette visibility controls.

If you need it, we can create a new dialog (for lack of a better word) that will have such a menu and toolbar. It will be floating and unsinkable like all other dialogs. --bb

Furthermore, you could mount this panel at the top of each document window if you were so inclined, however I feel we're moving away from this idea.