diff --git a/TODO.md b/TODO.md
index 0896763f..28243421 100644
--- a/TODO.md
+++ b/TODO.md
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 	- make their headers generated by an IDL
 - make sure complain()s don't have \n at the end; add one on each platform
 	- add a `[libui]` to the beginning of the message
+- figure out what to do on Windows and GTK+ if we don't have menus but the user wants a menubar (zero-height widget? don't bother? complain?)
 
 ultimately:
 - add some sort of runtime type checking
diff --git a/unix/menu.c b/unix/menu.c
index c814efe5..48f9c594 100644
--- a/unix/menu.c
+++ b/unix/menu.c
@@ -275,7 +275,6 @@ static void appendMenuItem(GtkMenuShell *submenu, struct menuItem *item, uiWindo
 	g_hash_table_insert(item->windows, menuitem, ww);
 }
 
-// TODO should this return a zero-height widget (or NULL) if there are no menus defined?
 GtkWidget *makeMenubar(uiWindow *w)
 {
 	GtkWidget *menubar;
diff --git a/windows/menu.c b/windows/menu.c
index 432225a3..ffbc927f 100644
--- a/windows/menu.c
+++ b/windows/menu.c
@@ -264,7 +264,6 @@ static HMENU makeMenu(struct menu *m)
 	return menu;
 }
 
-// TODO should this return a zero-height widget (or NULL) if there are no menus defined?
 HMENU makeMenubar(void)
 {
 	HMENU menubar;