I would like to create a "primary menu" programmatically, which I believe is also called a "hamburger menu". I have done several of these while working on web development side, but I have never done these using Python and GTK. This topic seems to be controversial and there are a lot of different solutions out there. I would like to create a menu like this using the non-deprecated way. In the documentation is mentioned that the old style menus are deprecated (the whole section is archived under "deprecated"): https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/menus.html In this example, the whole HeaderBar is made programmatically and a (popover) menu is added into it: GtkMenuButton popups While that seems to do the trick, it's not a "hamburger" menu and the documentation seems to suggest "Your menus should be defined in XML using Gio.Menu": https://python-gtk-3-tutorial.readthedocs.io/en/latest/application.html#menus So I am quite lost here. Can someone give me an example how to achieve this? Preferably done programmatically, but if the XML is the only way then so be it. Continue reading...
