0023. Menus are egui's own size, as Teleprinter's

Date: 2026-10-24

Status

Accepted. Supersedes the menu part of ADR-0022. The user found the 24 px items spaced too far apart and said Teleprinter's File, Edit and View menus, egui's own, are what every menu should look like.

Context

ADR-0022 made menus' items 24 px high. Teleprinter's menu bar opens its menus with ui.menu_button, which keeps egui's menu_style: items interact_size.y (18 px) high, 3 px apart. Next to those, the 24 px menus in Files and on the Patina desktop looked loose.

Decision

• Menus are egui's size: patina::menu::style is egui's menu_style, unchanged; ITEM is gone. menu::context stays, so context menus and menus drawn elsewhere keep one style that Patina can change in one place.
• The 24×24 rule doesn't cover a menu's items. A menu item is as wide as the menu, so its target is large enough at 18 px. The rule still holds for other clickable elements.

Consequences

• Files' context menus and the Patina desktop's menus match Teleprinter's menu bar again, with no change in the apps.
• Menu bars and context menus share a style, so there's nothing to set on MenuButton.

Revisit when

• 18 px proves too small on a touch screen.