Enhanced MacOS style top menu bar

Mosfet dan.duley at verizon.net
Wed Mar 12 15:16:29 GMT 2003


Uhm, that should be you *shouldn't* wait on mine because it sucked ;-)

Just woke up >:)

On Wednesday 12 March 2003 7:10 am, Mosfet wrote:
> Okay, well it looks like Chris is willing to do it. Either way, I just
> wanted to make clear that you should wait on mine because it sucked ;-)
>
> On Wednesday 12 March 2003 3:35 am, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > On Mittwoch, 12. März 2003 02:47, Mosfet wrote:
> > > SadEagle and I discussed this. I also have an implementation but it had
> > > problems, mostly because I tried to do it without modifying KMenuBar.
> > >
> > > If this looks good to you guys I'd commit it if it's okay with the
> > > author. Otherwise we can look at improving it. I don't think mine will
> > > ever work right :/
> >
> > Go ahead and try to make the original author maintain it in CVS :-)
> > Otherwise we'll end up with one more part not having someone responsible
> > for it in our CVS (doesn't matter if it's a limited area, but would be
> > nice if the original authors would favor to maintain it there).
> >
> > Ralf
> >
> > > On Tuesday 11 March 2003 5:59 pm, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> > > > On Dienstag, 11. März 2003 19:27, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > if you follow this link
> > > > >   http://www.liacs.nl/home/snijssen/kmenuapplet/
> > > > > you will find the code of someone who took his time to code
> > > > > something along that line (fetched out of my bookmarks, in the
> > > > > folder "interesting additions").
> > > >
> > > > Nice thing.
> > > >
> > > > > But don't ask me why it has never been included into KDE
> > > > > mainstream. Maybe the author didn't do enough promotion or did it
> > > > > at noisy times.
> > > > >
> > > > > I would like to have it in KDE, too. This way the MACOS-styled bar
> > > > > makes more sense to me. For small resolutions there would be really
> > > > > a gain in screen space.
> > > > > If I understood the GNOME screenshots correctly they already have
> > > > > such a MAC-style top bar (search below
> > > > > http://www.gnome.org/start/2.2), so there shouldn't be any legal
> > > > > conflicts.
> > > > >
> > > > > Taking your email as a raiser I will copy this to KDE-Devel and the
> > > > > author, Siegfried Nijssen, and ask my question now publically:
> > > > >
> > > > > Why has this kmenuapplet never been added to KDE?
> > > >
> > > > Because noone ever asked for it ? If an applet or a program is
> > > > extremely useful we sometimes ask the author if he won't want to
> > > > include it into KDE, if noone of us asks then that's not going to
> > > > happen (or the developer comes up and wants to have it included,
> > > > that's the other possibility).
> > > >
> > > > Ralf
> > > >
> > > > > Friedrich
> > > > >
> > > > > Pedro Palhoto Matos wrote:
> > > > > > The top bar is really useful in saving up space with various
> > > > > > windows, though it could seriously get some enhanced features:
> > > > > > - clock;
> > > > > > - Kmenu and
> > > > > > - program list (with hide/show capabilities).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Use MacOS 7 to 9 to get the idea.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I only use the windows style task bar because those features are
> > > > > > missing in the common upper menu bar.
> > > > > >
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