On Sunday 25 September 2011 18:24:40 Marco Martin wrote: > 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? It's the appmenu-qt: https://launchpad.net/appmenu-qt
I'm not sure if it is really required but the patch on reviewboard is based on it. I just notice that it is LGPLv3, so it might be compatible with KWin code. Cheers Martin > > Cheers, > Marco Martin > _______________________________________________ > 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
