shared menus

[Maciej Pilichowski]

On Thursday 21 May 2009 23:12:22 Matthew Woehlke wrote:

> It's more flexible, yes, but I'm not coming up with a UI that isn't
> too much more complex to convince me it is worth it.

I wrote whole long reply but I realized I cannot tell for sure -- once 
we have NWI we will see what shortcomings really are. So, for now, 
let it be take-all mechanism.

> >> (Actually you can't have help - at least, I don't think so,
> >> right now anyway - if app doesn't provide it,
> >
> > We can make it up -- "about KDE", "KDE handbook", "report a bug".
>
> Ah, the /really/ generic stuff. But what if it is not a KDE app?
> (Well, we can always put 'about KWin' ;-). And of course, we could
> have a global menu icon, like OS-X.)

Right :-)

> >> I wonder if this will
> >> lead to "optional" menus, as in, "show this stuff if a container
> >> wants a menu, but don't show a menu in this window".)
> >
> > I hope not :-D
>
> Why not? I don't see a problem. As an easy example, something that
> has 'hide menu bar'. It would be like this, but you only hide the
> menu bar if you aren't showing it anyway.

Hmmm... on the other hand, looks nice.

Cheers,