On Sunday 25 September 2011, Martin Gräßlin wrote: > > > 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.
i'm quite against the panel, it promotes the menubar to an importance it lost since ages, while i'm really in favor of burying it into a menu under the windeco, since this decreases its importance ;) > > > 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) what is the lib needed? dbusmenu i suppose? how much of it is in Qt 4.8 and how many modifications to dbusmenu itself would be needed? Cheers, Marco Martin _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
