On Sunday 25 September 2011 17:36:45 Alex Fiestas wrote: > Hi there again! > > So, while configuring the desktop shell to my taste, I realized how much I > missed the global Menubar, so I thought on bringing the topic to the list. > > Again guys, remember that I'm no usability expert or designer, just somebody > giving feedback, so please if I'm saying bullshit don't be rude with me :) > > My idea on this will be to move the Menubar to the Titlebar, replacing the > application icon (which I didn't know it had a menu until today). With Titlebar I assume you mean the window decoration and you want to have something like [1] > > Personally I'd like to introduce a top panel but of course that would be a > major change, Top panel has a hughe disadvantage in a multi screen setup. This is very easy to notice if you use Mac OS X or Unity. > so imho moving the Menubar to the Titlebar is a good step, since > it remove comlexity from the window, and in theory Menubar should be used > only > for "Options you don't use everyday" right? There are a few points to it and we already had some discussions in the kwin mailinglist and there is already a review request for it [2]. I am not sure what the current state of the project is. There are a few problems with it: * we cannot provide a generic solution without breaking the decoration ABI * license of required Canonical library is incompatible with license used by decoration API (GPLv3-only + Copyright Assignment (personal notice: I rather reinvent the wheel in chinese wall style than contributing to a GPLv3 only + CA library) vs BSD) * taking the horizontal menu and turning it vertical will only work in 9/10 cases. You would need a proper replacement menu like Dolphin does * there can be real issues with it. Thomas has investigated about it. * non-trivial if we consider window tabbing functionality * Nuno was unhappy with just turning the icon as the menu. This needs real help from designers * It needs Qt 4.8. Currently we still depend on Qt 4.7 and I don't know whether Qt 4.8 will become a requirement for KDE 4.8.
Short summary: I don't think this is something which we can provide for 4.8 but if we decide we want to have it can be ready for 4.9. I think we have a sprint planned where we can define what we want ;-) If we need something in KDEUI we would even have to wait for Frameworks 5. Cheers Martin [1] http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/03/menu-button-inside-window-decorations/ [2] https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/101162/ > > So, what do you think? > > Cheers! > _______________________________________________ > Plasma-devel mailing list > Plasma-devel@kde.org > https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
