[rekonq] Re: Fwd: Dolphin and Rekonq: common icon for "Tools" menu

[Lionel Chauvin]

Le jeudi 31 mars 2011 19:10:54, Andrea Diamantini a écrit :
> What do you guys think about?
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: 	Dolphin and Rekonq: common icon for "Tools" menu
> Date: 	Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:18:38 +0200
> From: 	Peter Penz <peter.penz19 at gmail.com>
> To: 	adjam7 at gmail.com
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Andrea,
> 
> I'm the maintainer of Dolphin and plan to get rid of the menu bar per
> default in Dolphin for KDE SC 4.7 (see
> http://ppenz.blogspot.com/2011/03/menu-bars.html for details). There has
> been a follow-up blog from Martin Gräßlin at
> http://blog.martin-graesslin.com/blog/2011/03/menu-button-inside-window-de
> corations/ that would be a very nice approach similar like Firefox 4 has
> it.
> 
> However after a discussion with Martin it turned out that we need to wait
> until 4.8 to make this possible in a clean way.
> 
> So for 4.7 I'll stick to the approach to show a sub-menu at the right of
> the toolbar similar like Rekonq does it. At least judging from the
> feedback of my blog-entry people don't like the KIcon("configure") as icon
> for the menu ;-)
> 
> I've taken the same icon as in Rekonq for consistency and because Chrome
> uses the same icon too. The internet explorer uses a kind of "gear" for
> this menu and to me the gear looks quite nice in combination with Dolphin
> (see attachment - I used KIcon("applications-system")).
> 
> I wanted to ask you about your opinion - for me it is important to stay
> consistent with Rekonq, so I won't change the icon in Dolphin if it will
> not be changed in Rekonq too. Personally I'd prefer the
> "applications-system" icon over the "configure" icon as there are several
> actions in the menu that are unrelated to configuration.
> 
> But I'd like to leave it up to you for a final word :-)
> 
> Slightly related: Do you think the approach from Martin would be an option
> for Rekonq for KDE SC 4.8?
> 
> Thanks,
> Peter

I will take a look to kwin this week end and try to implement the button menu 
in the decoration. I think it should be the default for rekonq in KDE SC 4.8.

Lionel.