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Dragging a non-menu component like a JLabel from the palette to a menubar does not work. It will correctly be refused. However, if you add the JLabel to a panel on the form and then drag the label to the menu then it will be added to the menu. This probably is not correct. Non-menu components should not be allowed inside menus even though the Swing spec does allow them. If we decide that non-menu components *should* be allowed in menus using the visual builder, then this bug should be used to track the changes required to do that.
*** Issue 103573 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Look at the picture I attached to issue 103573. I think this is not only legitimate, but desirable. Why do we have to waste GUI real estate on things like laptops and PDAs? I was unable to use Matisse on my project because of this. It is legal in Swing. It should be legal in Matisse.
Since this is an uncommonly requested feature (and I'm not sure it's even the right thing to allow) I am marking this as a P5 Feature for the future
*** Bug 196444 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***